Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

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.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

Control your destiny or somebody will.