Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by