125 Quotes by Ginni Rometty

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.

I am big on - even with our whole team - it's always about, well, what were the lessons learned? Something didn't work out? What are the lessons learned? What are the lessons learned?

You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing.

This idea of 'New Collar' says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology that can be done without a four-year college degree and, therefore, 'New Collar' not 'Blue Collar,' 'White Collar.' It's 'New Collar.'

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

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

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

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 a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.