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" 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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" And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. "

" You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" I have a great job at a great company. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" It will not be a world of man versus machine. It will be a world of man plus machines. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive. "

" 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. "