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" We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees. "

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" 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. "

" Growth and comfort do not coexist. "

" 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. "

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

" I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it. "

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

" Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad. "

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

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

" Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value. "

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

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

" I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do. "

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

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

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

" Be first and be lonely. "

" This idea of 'New Collar' says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology that can be done without a four-year college degree and, therefore, 'New Collar' not 'Blue Collar,' 'White Collar.' It's 'New Collar.' "

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

" 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. "

" What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We share no data with the government anywhere in the world. "

" Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process. "