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

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.

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

Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

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 got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

I often say to entrepreneurs, 'If Lehman Brothers were Lehman Brothers & Sisters, it wouldn't have gone into bankruptcy.'

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

IBM has a very solid business image.