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

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" 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. "

" The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company. "

" I am very practical. "

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

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

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

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

" One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math and science. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Digital, it is not the destination. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market. "

" 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. "

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