I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

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.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Boys,' she says, 'just aren't very good at being afraid.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch.