GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

A writer always writes.

You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.

Before stopping terrorism, find the real terrorist!!!

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.