If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities. Ginni Rometty More Quotes by Ginni Rometty More Quotes From Ginni Rometty I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. Ginni Rometty strong-womeninspiringpositive One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution. Ginni Rometty importantleaderthinking Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share. Ginni Rometty businessshareinspirational For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. Ginni Rometty innovationgrowthtoday IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. Ginni Rometty passiontechnologythinking To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors. Ginni Rometty culturepeopleway Growth and comfort do not coexist. Ginni Rometty strong-womengrowthcomfort Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word “inclusion.” And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It’s not men, it’s not women alone. Whether it’s geographic, it’s approach, it’s your style, it’s your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it’s your age - it is really broad. Ginni Rometty diversitymenthinking Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer. Ginni Rometty clientsbelievefirsts Don't let others define you. Define yourself. Ginni Rometty define-youdefine-yourself The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious. Ginni Rometty powerfulimportantjobs Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember. Ginni Rometty growthcomfortthinking You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion. Ginni Rometty drivingsticksbelieve Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust. Ginni Rometty thought-provokingdatadust I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most. Ginni Rometty careerseyethinking Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. Ginni Rometty cant-let-gomoving-on-loveletting-go If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market. Ginni Rometty foundationclearbelieve The social network will be the new production line in a company. Ginni Rometty social-networkcompanylines I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do. Ginni Rometty familymomthinking One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely." Ginni Rometty womenlonelyinspiring
