The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

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 hope of hardships!

Walk on the sacred path.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of socialism without the politics.

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

I'll tell you what, our media is indeed sick and its making our country sick, and we're going to stop it.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

When I see Steve Davis I see two letters... C S... Cue Sorceror.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.