John L. Flannery

Businessman

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We are fortunate to attract an energy executive as strong as Banmali Agrawala.

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company.

Understanding the customer, feeling what they are feeling, seeing what competitors are doing, you end up having a richer sense of the marketplace.

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.

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.

I think I just have a different style.

I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background.

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.

Our global structuring activities and restructuring activities really don't impact India.

I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.

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.

We are a company built for fair and open trade.

We are really trying to move from being just a technology provider to being a partner with our customers.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

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.

First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.

When a customer is really not happy, it's a very unpleasant experience.

Our collaboration in building innovative technologies will support the Make in India vision of the Indian government.

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