The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

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.

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.

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi

Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

Choose who you are in any given moment.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.