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" I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" There will be times you make decisions that actually detract from growth. "

" You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing. "

" 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. "

" 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 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? "

" This idea of 'New Collar' says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology that can be done without a four-year college degree and, therefore, 'New Collar' not 'Blue Collar,' 'White Collar.' It's 'New Collar.' "

" 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. "

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

" As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients. "

" Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses. "

" 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. "

" Be first and be lonely. "

" The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive. "

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

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

" I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle of innovation/commoditization. "

" I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a great job at a great company. "

" 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. "