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Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive. She is the current chair, president, and CEO of IBM, and the first woman to head the company. Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she held the positions of senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing, and strategy at IBM. She joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981.

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Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Coexist, Comfort, Growth, Strong Women

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.

Passion, Technology, Thinking, Ibm, Issues, People

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

Data, Dust, Eighteen, Individual, Months, Thought Provoking

Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

Letting Go, Moving On Love, Can'T Let Go, Let, Love

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

Inspirational, Business, Share, Value, Know

The social network will be the new production line in a company.

Lines, Social Network, Company, Line, Production

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

Technology, Being A Woman, Changed, Though, Electrical, Say

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.

Came, Heart, Passionate, Sacrifice, Say, Thinking

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

Strong Women, Female, Done, Take, 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.

Built, Head, Ibm, Priorities, Together, Years

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Define Yourself, Define You, Define, Let

Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first. ' That's a far more enduring answer.

Believe, Answers, Firsts, Clients, Say, Answer

Any city has to give some thought to its ambition and brand in order to set sustainability goals.

Ambition, Order, Cities, Brand, Sustainability

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

Thinking, Cities, Car, Helping, Grids, Markets

The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

Jobs, Powerful, Important, Thing, Curious

Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.

Thinking, Growth, Comfort, Remember, Good, Coexist

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

Believe, Sticks, Driving, Biggest, Inclusion

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

Innovation, Growth, Culture, Models, Innovating

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

People, Culture, Way, Behavior

If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.

Believe, Clear, Foundation, Make