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

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" When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view. "

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

" Be first and be lonely. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle. "

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