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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Ginni Rometty

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Time

Woman

" The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk. "

" This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that. "

" IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales. "

" 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. "

Ginni Rometty

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" Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember. "

" 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. "

" I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual. "

" Be first and be lonely. "

Ginni Rometty

Lonely

First

" Work on something that matters. Have courage. "

" Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware. "

" I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients. "

" 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. "

" I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that. "

" I never look at an acquisition really by size. "

" If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market. "

" You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming. "

" 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. "

" I was always surrounded by people that wanted to mentor you. "

" 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. "

" The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company. "

" 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. "

" Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence. "

" Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process. "

" One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science. "

" I am very practical. "

Ginni Rometty

Very

I Am

" I have a great job at a great company. "

" What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from. "

" You can engineer change. "

" 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. "