Ginni Rometty Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.”

“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.”

“Be first and be lonely.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.”

“And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. 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.”