Greg Fleming

You know, the two best, I think, leadership labs that I had the opportunity to be part of are the experiences One was at GE Capital through the financial crisis, then the eventual selling of several hundred billion in assets.

And then the second one was under Greg Fleming's leadership, the growth of Rockefeller Capital.

And I do need to update, it's not 160 billion.

I think they're well over 200 billion.

And One of the things that great leaders do, and I've worked for some great leaders, they're very focused on what's important to them.

And so at GE Capital, if you were presenting to Mike Neal and you weren't doing something that was helping gather assets, improve margins, keep us safer, or investing in something that really mattered to us, he didn't really want to talk about it.

He would say, what do you want to do for lunch? But he was very focused on what do we have to do today to deliver today? And what do we have to do today to deliver tomorrow? And But I would say Greg Fleming is the same way.

By 7 a.m. in the morning, you know you're on his critical path for that day on what we have to get done in order for us to be successful in the short term.

A look at what's bugging Wall Street.

We talk to a veteran investor, one who has seen every cycle, Greg Fleming of Rockefeller Capital Management, on the markets and the policy driving ease or unease.

The clear issue in the last 10 years-

Is spending

Cheese will be next.

Coming up on Squawk Pod, we'll talk to an investor a little less worried than we are, especially when it comes to borrowing to build.

Rockefeller Capital's Greg Fleming.

It's never been easier in the United States to be an entrepreneur.

I've said this to good friends of mine over the years.

Greg Fleming ran Morgan Stanley Wealth Management at the time, and now, of course, is CEO of Rockefeller.

One of the things the wire houses did so well was convince me about teaming, about having a business.

I'd go to chairman's club every year and they would talk about you build out your team and you have your own little mini group and you're adding a planner into this.