Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.
The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.
This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
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.
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.
We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.
I have a huge problem with pornography.
I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.