GINNI ROMETTY

Growth and comfort do not coexist. You have to choose one.

I was the first in my family to go to college. I paid for it with scholarships and part-time jobs. That shapes how you see the world.

The skills you have today will not be the skills you need tomorrow. Continuous learning is not optional. It is survival.

I knew IBM had to transform. Revenue declined for 22 quarters. Everyone saw the problem. The challenge was having the courage to fix it while running the company.

Good power is the power that lifts others up. It is the only kind worth having.

Red Hat was a 34 billion dollar bet on open source and hybrid cloud. History will judge whether it was brilliant or desperate. I believe it was brilliant.