I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.
Ginni RomettyI learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
Ginni RomettyI think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.
Ginni RomettyOne thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."
Ginni RomettyTo me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.
Ginni RomettyAnd 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.
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