IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

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.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.