Samuel J. Palmisano Quotes

#1. Smarter is always the answer.

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#2. I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

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#3. IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

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#6. From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

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#7. If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

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#8. Tech never comes back the same.

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