Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.

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.

I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and I am like, 'God, that did everything that I wanted it to do.'