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" 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. "

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" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I often sit back and say, 'Be sure about what I believe.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value. "

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

" The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients. "

" When you manage your company for long-term shareholders, and you manage the company for clients, two of the biggest stakeholders, you will make the right decisions. "

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

" I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift. "

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

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

" Digital, it is not the destination. "

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

" Work on something that matters. Have courage. "

" We share no data with the government anywhere in the world. "

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

" I am very practical. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines. "

" You can engineer change. "