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I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.

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.

Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

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

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.