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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.
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.
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.