Top 170 Ibm Quotes & Sayings

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.

John Akers once said that changing IBM's culture was more difficult than getting elephants to dance. Of course it's really difficult, as Lou Gerstner also found out years later. The title of his own book is Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? He and his top executives were change masters at IBM. All organizations, especially the larger ones, will always need change masters. Dissatisfaction with the status quo and efforts to improve it should be encouraged rather than discouraged. Regrettably, that is often not the case.

Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

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

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

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

I grew up in the IBM school of management.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

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.

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.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

India... what a big part you play in this story for IBM and for the world.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

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

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.

I went to Tokyo three years ago. It was a job, though. I did an ad campaign for IBM, so they flew me out there to take pictures of me. It was IBM Global. It went to Australia, France, London, all over the world. But I think the ad campaign was a failure, because of me.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

IBM has a very solid business image.

I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.

IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit

I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

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.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.