Ginni Rometty Quotes

• I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

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  Positive, Inspiring, Strong Women

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

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  Inspirational, Business, Share

  Council on Foreign Relations, Corporate Conference, www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013.

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

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  Jobs, Powerful, Important

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• Growth and comfort do not coexist.

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  Strong Women, Growth, Comfort

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Megan Barnett, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

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  Define Yourself, Define You

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• One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.

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  Thinking, Leader, Important

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• 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.

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  Passion, Thinking, Technology

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• 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.

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  Innovation, Growth, Today

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

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  Strong Women, Female, Done

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

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  Believe, Firsts, Clients

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Diversity

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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

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  Thinking, Growth, Comfort

  "BM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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

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  Letting Go, Moving On Love, Can't Let Go

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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

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  Believe, Foundation, Clear

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

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  People, Culture, Way

  "A Conversation with Ginni Rometty". www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013.

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

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  Believe, Sticks, Driving

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

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  Eye, Thinking, Careers

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Family, Mom, Thinking

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

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  Dust, Data, Thought Provoking

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

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  Lines, Social Network, Company

  CFR's annual Corporate Conference, New York, www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013.

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

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  Data, Bigs

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• One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

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  Inspiring, Lonely, Women

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Heart, Sacrifice, Thinking

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

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  Ambition, Order, Cities

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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