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

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" 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'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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" The social network will be the new production line. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale. "

" It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "