36 Quotes by John L. Flannery

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

I think I just have a different style.

If you look across a 30-year career in the company, I've executed in a wide arrange of environments. In financial services all around the world, in industrial businesses, and in the acquisition and strategy work.

I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.

The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.