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

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Change before you have to.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.