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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.
Ginni Rometty
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Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.
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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.
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Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products.
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I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual.
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If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.
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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.
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