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

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" Digital, it is not the destination. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned? Something didn't work out? What are the lessons learned? What are the lessons learned? "

" I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think. "

" I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that. "

" Be first and be lonely. "

" I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle. "

" The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it. "

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

" With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you. "

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

" 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. "

" The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "