Split personality Quote by Robert Cringely

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and…

— Anonymous

“In 1957, IBM’s weight was two-thirds of the technology sector; in 2013, IBM was only the third largest in a sector that contains 70 firms.”

— Jeremy J. Siegel

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…

— Ginni Rometty

IBM has a very solid business image.

— Helmut Jahn

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's…

— Buck Rodgers

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

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

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If…

— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Thomas J. Watson, Former Chairman and CEO of IBM”

— Dan Siroker

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work…

— Boris Johnson

I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and…

— Masaaki Imai

“It’s been said every institution is nothing more, but the extended shadow of one person. In IBM’s case, that was Thomas J. Watson, Sr.”

— BusinessNews Publishing