Ginni Rometty
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.'Collection: Future
Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Car
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.'Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Technology
Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you run your company can actually have a piece that learns and thinks as part of it, you will be a cognitive business.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Age
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.Collection: Positive
Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.Collection: Inspirational
The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.Collection: Jobs
Don't let others define you. Define yourself.Collection: Define Yourself
Growth and comfort do not coexist.Collection: Strong Women
One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Passion
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.Collection: Innovation
Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Men
Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.Collection: Thinking
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.Collection: Strong Women
If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.Collection: Believe
Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.Collection: Letting Go
You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.Collection: Believe
To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.Collection: People
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.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Family
Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.Collection: Dust
The social network will be the new production line in a company.Collection: Lines
Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.Collection: Data
One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."Collection: Inspiring
Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.Collection: Ambition
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.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Years
We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.Collection: Ideas