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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Adam Osborne

Successful, Numbers, Products

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Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, People, Records

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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

Donald Knuth

Might, Example, Talent

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IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

Lou Gerstner

Enormous, Needed, Sense Of Urgency

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I want to take IBM back to its roots.

Lou Gerstner

Roots, Want

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And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

Ginni Rometty

Heart, Sacrifice, Thinking

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A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

Lou Gerstner

Team, People, Leader

"In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

Lou Gerstner

Spain, Looks, Problem

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The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

Charlie Munger

Average, Long, Example

Charlie Munger's comments on future returns from equities at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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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.

Lou Gerstner

Team, People, Pay

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Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

Samuel J. Palmisano

World, Reason, Efficiency

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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

Aaron Levie

Thinking, Focus, Energy

"Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions With Box Ceo Aaron Levie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

Darl McBride

Taken, Secret, Linux

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You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

Kevin B. Rollins

White, Example, Flags

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IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.

Dan Jones

Data, Size, Protection

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Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

John Backus

Writing, Lazy, Computer

IBM employee magazine "Think", 1979.

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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

Gabrielle Zevin

Writing, Grandmother, Florida

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My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

Tino Sehgal

Children, Father, Pakistan

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Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Craig Reucassel

Progress, Way, Decades

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IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

H. G. Wells

Mind, Quality, Gathering

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The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Lou Gerstner

Excellence, Culture, I Have Learned

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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Tom Peters

Excellent Work, Excellence, Lines

Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.10, Vintage

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If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

Mitchell Kapor

Google, Microsoft, Defining

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Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

Yasser Seirawan

Fear, Blue, Chess

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IBM has had a long partnership with Siebel, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft, so from a partner perspective, this is a good move by both sides. This agreement reflects the reality of what customers expect for their investment, support and openness. Oracle really needed to do this for Websphere, but it opens up tremendous opportunities for both companies.

Stephen Graham

Moving, Opportunity, Reality

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