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" 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. "

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" I was always surrounded by people that wanted to mentor you. "

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "