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" 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. "

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" Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. "

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

" You can engineer change. "

" 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. "

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" If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business. "

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

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" 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. "