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All Quotes by author - Ginni Rometty
" Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients. "
Beyond
Service
Innovation
" And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. "
Thought
Time
Woman
" And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices. "
Early
Age
Heart
" Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have. "
Learning
Intelligence
Process
" As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.' "
Team
Moving
Future
" As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients. "
Reason
Tell
Clients
" Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk. "
Ask
You
Risk
" Be first and be lonely. "
Lonely
First
" Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer. "
Believe
Strategy
Say
" Digital, it is not the destination. "
Digital
Destination
" Don't let others define you. You define yourself. "
Yourself
Others
Define
" Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products. "
Protect
Your
Past
" Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa. "
Work
Think
Help
" Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing. "
Blind
Saying
Song
" Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future. "
Will
Future
Change
" Growth and comfort do not coexist. "
Growth
Comfort
Coexist
" I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most. "
Know
My Life
You
" I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned? Something didn't work out? What are the lessons learned? What are the lessons learned? "
Team
Always
Work
" I am very practical. "
Very
I Am
Am
" I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it. "
Talk
Everyone
Opinion
" I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view. "
Thinking
Believe
Planning
" IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales. "
IBM
Years
Before
" IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. "
Technology
Passion
Me
" I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual. "
You
Individual
Just
" If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old. "
You
Here
Company
" If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business. "
Way
Business
Think
" If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar. "
White
School
Business
" If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities. "
Me
Business
You
" If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market. "
Believe
You
Great
" If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs. "
Back
Jobs
Look
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