First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.