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
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. – Jack Welch
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. Its got the market. Its got consumer confidence and its got banks throwing – I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. – Jack Welch
Ive learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc