I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

The destination isn't in finding yourself. The destination is in the search.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

You gotta surround yourself with positive people, people who care.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.