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.

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.

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

I never put myself out there as an employment agency.