Keith Sherin Quotations

As we said in December, we believe that growth in our short-cycle businesses such as GE Plastics and NBC, continued growth at GE Capital, and savings from our initiatives will more than offset the falloff in sales of GE Power Systems gas turbines that we anticipate.

You look at those major equipment and services orders, and they really do bode well for the future.

The Olympics performed as expected even though in the quarter it was a loss.

We're going to continue to run this business as well as we can going forward, ... We are reviewing our strategic options, and in the current planning process we're counting on break-even results in 2003.

We're looking at 10 of 11 divisions having double digit revenue growth. Depending on where energy comes in we could have the whole portfolio come in with double-digit gains.

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

This is really a continuation of growth we see in 2004, ... We're out of the deals' costs and into the positive synergy momentum.

We feel great about where we are with our debt strategy,

We're still in range for the total year, ... GE's strengths have allowed us to perform in a difficult environment.

We are rebuilding prime programming and we feel good about the progress we've made,