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

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" Work on something that matters. Have courage. "

" The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk. "

" 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. "

" Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence. "