Growth and comfort do not coexist.

- Ginni Rometty

I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings.

- Ginni Rometty

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

- Ginni Rometty

So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.

- Ginni Rometty

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

- Ginni Rometty

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

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

- Ginni Rometty

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

- Ginni Rometty

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember.

- Ginni Rometty

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

- Ginni Rometty

I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that.

- Ginni Rometty

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

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

- Ginni Rometty

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

- Ginni Rometty

You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.

- Ginni Rometty

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

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

- Ginni Rometty

I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.

- Ginni Rometty

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

- Ginni Rometty

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