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. – Ginni Rometty
If it’s digital, it will be cognitive. If you think that, you’re going to change the way you run a business. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future. – Ginni Rometty
We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn’t just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees. – Ginni Rometty
It’s easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part. – Ginni Rometty
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from. – Ginni Rometty
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.’ – Ginni Rometty
Planes don’t fly, trains don’t run, banks don’t operate without much of what IBM does. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
The recommendation when I’m mentoring folks, I always tell them – and we talked about this last year – take a risk. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
India will not be at the center – it will be the center of this fourth technology shift. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients. – Ginni Rometty
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? – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
You’ve got to keep reinventing. You’ll have new competitors. You’ll have new customers all around you. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
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. – Ginni Rometty
You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion. – Ginni Rometty
