Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well.

The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.