Quotes from Ginni Rometty

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

I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.

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

Digital, it is not the destination.

If it's digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you're going to change the way you run a business.

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

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.

I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings.

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

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients.

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

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

Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process.

My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved.

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.'

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

I have a great job at a great company.

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.

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

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.

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?

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

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.