The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

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.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

I am truly grateful and thankful for all your support.

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.