Words matter. These are the best Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
I think this notion that it’s the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of ‘Fox News’ every day and stuff like that.
President Obama has asked me to chair his new President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
I’d be lying if I didn’t say there were days when I went back and said, ‘I wish I’d done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.’ But it’s always in the motivation of getting better. I’ve never once looked in the mirror and said, ‘Oh boy, can’t do this one.’
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.’
The one thing that people don’t get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it’s not a company. It’s not just a job. You feel like you’re part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.
When you take over a company like GE, you think you’re going to visit 100 businesses. You’re going to go see the factories you haven’t seen before. You’re going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.
September 11 was horrific, but I’ve been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
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.
Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can’t, then you’re not leading well.
As one of America’s largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.
Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It’s about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, ‘I could have done three things better yesterday.’
