If GE's 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.
Does the business have favourable long term prospects?
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.
After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at.
America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.
You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.
It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.
