Ginni Rometty

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

— Ginni Rometty

Ask yourself when you learn the most. I guarantee it's when you felt at risk.

— Ginni Rometty

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

— Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

— Ginni Rometty

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.

— Ginni Rometty

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is…

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point…

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The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.

— Ginni Rometty

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be…

— Ginni Rometty

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…

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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.…

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Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen…

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One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define…

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IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the…

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I think, particularly in our tech industry, this is an industry that has violent innovation and then commoditization, and it's a cycle…

— Ginni Rometty

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think…

— Ginni Rometty

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the…

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For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about…

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I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast…

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One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation.

— Ginni Rometty

I often sit back and say, 'Be sure about what I believe.'

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

One day we're going to look back, and whatever this era will get called, it's going to put a premium on math…

— Ginni Rometty

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see…

— Ginni Rometty

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…

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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.

— Ginni Rometty

You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher…

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

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs.

— Ginni Rometty

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an…

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I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

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

— Ginni Rometty

I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual.

— Ginni Rometty