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" Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients. "
Ginni Rometty
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" With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you. "
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" I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think. "
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" The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk. "
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" My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved. "
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" We share no data with the government anywhere in the world. "
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" You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad. "
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