History Quote by Adam Osborne

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

— Anonymous

IBM has a very solid business image.

— Helmut Jahn

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an…

— Samuel J. Palmisano

What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology…

— Ginni Rometty

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and…

— Thomas J. Watson

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

— James Surowiecki

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the…

— Anonymous

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't…

— Al Ries

People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win.

— Glenn Kelman

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in…

— Anonymous

The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs,…

— Ginni Rometty