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" India will not be at the center - it will be the center of this fourth technology shift. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Digital, it is not the destination. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose. "

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

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

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

" I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that. "

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

" 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. "

" Be first and be lonely. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Growth and comfort do not coexist. "