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" I have a strong command of what's going on in the company. "
John L. Flannery
Command
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" I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider. "
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" First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever. "
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" It's quite clear we've got strong franchises at the core of this company. "
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" GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving. "
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" 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. "
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Long Time
Time
Business
" There will be no cost drag from digital by 2020. "
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Will
" We are a company built for fair and open trade. "
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Fair
Trade
Open
" Our global structuring activities and restructuring activities really don't impact India. "
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Global
Impact
India
" What investors want is growth, margin, and cash. "
John L. Flannery
Growth
Cash
Margin
" 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. "
John L. Flannery
Process
Thought
India
" I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background. "
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Perspective
Training
History
" We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc. "
John L. Flannery
Education
India
Healthcare
" 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. "
John L. Flannery
Need
Three
Company
" 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. "
John L. Flannery
Business
Made
Growing
" When a customer is really not happy, it's a very unpleasant experience. "
John L. Flannery
Experience
Happy
Really
" Going back to the past is not productive. "
John L. Flannery
Going
Past
Productive
" We are really trying to move from being just a technology provider to being a partner with our customers. "
John L. Flannery
Technology
Trying
Partner
" Artificial intelligence, machine learning... cell therapy, immunotherapy. There's just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion. "
John L. Flannery
Learning
Fashion
Ideas
" I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business. "
John L. Flannery
Help
Focus
Business
" 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. "
John L. Flannery
World
Financial
Look
" 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. "
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Technology
Interesting
Know
" No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying. "
John L. Flannery
Look
Good
Feel
" 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. "
John L. Flannery
Business
Care
Health
" 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. "
John L. Flannery
Energy
Grow
India
" 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. "
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Team
Manufacturing
Investment
" We are fortunate to attract an energy executive as strong as Banmali Agrawala. "
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Fortunate
Energy
Attract
" I think I just have a different style. "
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Just
Style
I Think
" Understanding the customer, feeling what they are feeling, seeing what competitors are doing, you end up having a richer sense of the marketplace. "
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Feeling
Doing
End
" 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. "
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Things
Customers
Now