The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

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.

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.

Everything starts with the customer.

I make you see things that aren't really there and you believe every word

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Where you live determines what you see. The people you listen to influence what you hear.

That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.