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Ginni Rometty
American
Businesswoman
Believe
People
Technology
Think
Will
You
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So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
Ginni Rometty
You
Change
Inevitable
Believe
Out
How
Expect
Them
Turn
Means
Things
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.
Ginni Rometty
Before
Take
Never
Learned
Always
Done
Things
I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.
Ginni Rometty
Together
Strategy
Our
Colleagues
Head
Execute
Priorities
Built
Continue
Been
Five-Year
Going
Plan
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
Ginni Rometty
Me
Technology
People
Passion
Made
Think
Thinking
Long-Standing
Major
Scientific
Always
Issues
Place
Mantra
Fascinating
Company
Compelling
Societal
Apply
Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.
Ginni Rometty
Me
First
Strategy
Believe
Say
More
Answer
Clients
Enduring
Far
Ask
Your
I've got a distribution system that goes to 170 countries. If I acquire properly, you know, you may be successful in one or two countries, or one place; I can scale, and that's part of the value that IBM brings.
Ginni Rometty
You
Value
Scale
System
One Or Two
Distribution
Properly
Part
Countries
Know
Got
Goes
May
Place
Acquire
Successful
Brings
Two
You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.
Ginni Rometty
You
All-Around
New
Around
Got
Customers
Keep
Reinventing
Competitors
It's easy to have an act one and two. Go ahead and have an act three, four, and five. The saying is the easy part. The doing is the hard part.
Ginni Rometty
Saying
Three
Easy
Part
Doing
Go
Five
Act
Hard
Hard Part
Four
Two
Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products.
Ginni Rometty
Past
Protect
Your
Products
I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.
Ginni Rometty
Me
You
School
Problems
Engineering
Think
Took
Everything
Latin
Kid
Tried
Solve
Stayed
Could
Take
Because
Felt
Understand
Then
Worked
If I Could
Root
Teaches
Reason
Why
Artificial intelligence is one of 50 things that Watson does. There is also machine learning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and different analytical engines - they're like little Lego bricks. You can put intelligence in any product or any process you have.
Ginni Rometty
You
Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Watson
Analytical
Machine
Put
Like
Also
Does
Artificial
Any
Different
Lego
Process
Little
Product
Engines
Bricks
Things
I am very practical.
Ginni Rometty
Practical
Am
Very
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
Ginni Rometty
Great
You
People
Jobs
Support
Because
Around
Understand
CEO
Need
The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.
Ginni Rometty
You
Technology
Financial
Amazing
Big
Local
Scale
Financial Services
Jobs
About
Network
Had
Talent
Global
Industry
Around
Insurance
Amazing Thing
Where
Different
Company
Thing
Services
Phenomenal
Careers
If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs.
Ginni Rometty
You
Technology
Every
Back
Jobs
Step
Look
Also
Era
Lot
Created
Displaced
I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.
Ginni Rometty
Challenges
Plenty
Looked
Always
Found
Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses.
Ginni Rometty
People
Some People
Some
Make
Industry
Said
Often
Size
Wanted
Happen
Choice
Billion
Businesses
Believer
Growth
The social network will be the new production line.
Ginni Rometty
Will
Network
New
Line
Social
Production
This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that.
Ginni Rometty
Will
Believe
Indian
Century
Really
India will not be at the center - it will be the center of this fourth technology shift.
Ginni Rometty
Technology
Will
India
Shift
Center
Fourth
India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world.
Ginni Rometty
You
World
Big
India
Part
Big Part
Story
Play
I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it.
Ginni Rometty
Health
Care
Think
Trillion
Ripe
Absolutely
Industry
Health Care
Inefficiency
Lots
You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.
Ginni Rometty
You
Goals
Will
Confuse
More
Purpose
Years
Goal
Many
I have a great job at a great company.
Ginni Rometty
Great
Job
Great Job
Company
I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better position than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the next shift.
Ginni Rometty
Balance
Strong
Better
Before
Every
Ninth
Steered
Through
Invest
Allow
Sheet
Continue
Shift
Left
Very
Than
Person
Predecessors
Them
CEO
Next
Company
Prepared
Technological
Position
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