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" We've reinvented ourselves many, many, many times. "
John L. Flannery
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" Artificial intelligence, machine learning... cell therapy, immunotherapy. There's just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion. "
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" I have a long history of looking at things from an investor's perspective by training and background. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Our collaboration in building innovative technologies will support the Make in India vision of the Indian government. "
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" 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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" I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business. "
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" Going back to the past is not productive. "
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" First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever. "
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" 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. "
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" No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying. "
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" GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving. "
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