If GEs 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. – Jack Welch
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. – Jack Welch
Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition. – Jack Welch
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. – Jack Welch
Im not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. – Wilbur Smith