Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by John L. Flannery
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman John L. Flannery.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Artificial intelligence, machine learning... cell therapy, immunotherapy. There's just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion.
We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.
The thought process of India was more around its potential as a cost arbitrage. We always recognised the potential of India, but we were more coming from how can we fit into cost structure rather than selling things here.
No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.
It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company.
What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.
As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.
We are really trying to move from being just a technology provider to being a partner with our customers.
The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.
We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.
GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.
I think I just have a different style.
We are growing both in the U.S. and in India, and all our business plans are made accordingly. So we are expanding both in U.S. and in India.
Going back to the past is not productive.
I have a strong command of what's going on in the company.
First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.
We are a company built for fair and open trade.
Understanding the customer, feeling what they are feeling, seeing what competitors are doing, you end up having a richer sense of the marketplace.
Energy is our largest business in India but still has huge room to grow in new areas like renewables and distributed energy - as well as traditional gas and steam turbines and services.
Our collaboration in building innovative technologies will support the Make in India vision of the Indian government.
I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.
I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.
In the U.S., a lot of small manufacturers are pretty good. I don't see any reason why India won't make the same progress in manufacturing as it did in services.
I am very bullish and I have been bullish on India for a very long time, and I see our own business growing very substantially.
Our global structuring activities and restructuring activities really don't impact India.
I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.
Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.
There will be no cost drag from digital by 2020.
We are fortunate to attract an energy executive as strong as Banmali Agrawala.
The core businesses are transforming in very futuristic ways. You know, our aviation business, very interesting things are going on, and unmanned vehicles, drone technology, and things like that.
If you look across a 30-year career in the company, I've executed in a wide arrange of environments. In financial services all around the world, in industrial businesses, and in the acquisition and strategy work.
We've reinvented ourselves many, many, many times.
The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.
I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.
In all our businesses, we are out to build local capability in four basic aspects - product line, manufacturing and supply chain, the service team, and the financing and investment capability.
When a customer is really not happy, it's a very unpleasant experience.
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