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" India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees. "

" The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive. "

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

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

" And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty. "

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

" The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal. "

" 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. "

" I am very practical. "

" If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities. "

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

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