Ibm Company Quotes

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

Mitchell Kapor

#2. If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Thomas Watson

#3. Life is conflict; peace is death. Forces of chaos keep the cycles of history moving.

Jack Donovan

#4. The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

Bill Gates

#5. It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.

Al Ries

#6. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

William Davenant

#7. 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.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#8. What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

Jack Welch

#9. The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Elizabeth George

#10. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

James Surowiecki

#11. It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.

Frederick Lenz

#12. It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Alexander Kotov

#13. We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

Buck Rodgers

#14. Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.

Sam Walton

#15. Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

Mara Liasson

#16. IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.)

Tom DeMarco

#17. (When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and employed a million people.) Bell moved to Washington, D.C., became

Bill Bryson

#18. Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

Jodi Picoult

#19. In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.

Tom Watson

#20. Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Romola Garai

#21. I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.

Ginni Rometty

#22. Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

Stephen Manes

#23. The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

Brennan Manning

#24. At IBM, a corporation that embodied the ideal of the company man, the sales force gathered each morning to belt out the company anthem, "Ever Onward," and to harmonize on the "Selling IBM" song, set to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain.

Susan Cain

#25. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.

Rachel Cohn

#26. 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