Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
IBM has a very solid business image.
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
I want to take IBM back to its roots.
If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.