The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.
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. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.
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.
Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.
I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next. " I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.
To be premature is to be perfect
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.