I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

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.

Maybe love and pain are synonyms.

Discipline is a fast track to elevation in life.

One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

When you get over 95, every day is your day.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail.