People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

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.

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.

Everything starts with the customer.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.