The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

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.

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.

Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.

Believe in that One Thing That Sets You Apart: your skill, your idea or just you, yourself ! And, Never Stop Believing.

There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.