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

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

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

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

One 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."

I 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.

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.