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" Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future. "

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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. "

" One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation. "

" 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. "

" When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen. "

" I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings. "

" If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business. "

" The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive. "

" Growth and comfort do not coexist. "

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

" 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 think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it. "

" Don't let others define you. You define yourself. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk. "

" You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you. "

" To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors. "

" Never love something so much that you can't let go of it. "

" You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs. "

" Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer. "

" I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. "

" 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. "

" When I think of revenue growth, I think of the words 'mix' and 'shift.' "

" Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients. "