Ginni Rometty famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Positive #Growth #Comfort
Growth and comfort do not coexist.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Growth #Comfort #Coexist
Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Believe #Answers #Firsts
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.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Men #Thinking #Diversity
Don't let others define you. Define yourself.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Define Yourself #Define You
If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Believe #Foundation #Clear
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

#Passion #Technology #Thinking
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

#Family #Mom #Thinking
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.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Technology #Being A Woman #Changed
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

#Eye #Thinking #Careers
Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Data #Bigs
Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Letting Go
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.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Thinking #Cities #Car
The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Jobs #Powerful #Important
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.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Innovation #Growth #Today
The social network will be the new production line in a company,
-- Ginni Rometty

#Lines #Social Network #Social
Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Thinking #Growth #Comfort
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Done
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

#Years #Priorities #Together
We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Ideas #Long #Age
To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.
-- Ginni Rometty

#People #Culture #Way
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.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Dust #Data #Thought Provoking
Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Ambition #Order #Cities
Be first and be lonely.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Inspiring #Lonely #Firsts
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.
-- Ginni Rometty

#Heart #Sacrifice #Thinking
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

#Believe #Sticks #Driving

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