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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ginni Rometty

Technology

Passion

" I never look at an acquisition really by size. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing. "

" You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is. "

" You can engineer change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view. "

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

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

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

" Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does. "

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

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

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

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

Ginni Rometty

Business

You

" Be first and be lonely. "

Ginni Rometty

Lonely

First

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

Ginni Rometty

You

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

Ginni Rometty

You

Know

" 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. "