A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

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.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

Jump for joy as we accomplish the dreams we adore.

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.