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

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

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

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.

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

We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.