Ginni Rometty Quotes

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.

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.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

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

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

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.'

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

The social network will be the new production line in a company,

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

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

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 to turn out. You can change them.

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.

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.

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.

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

The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

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.

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

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

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.

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

I've made lots of mistakes. Probably the worst one - I would say they tie. It's either when I didn't move fast enough on something, or I didn't take a big enough risk.

You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.