Samuel J. Palmisano quote: "From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries."

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning m...
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO

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

If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it ...
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO

Tech never comes back the same.
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO

Smarter is always the answer.
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the serv...
SAMUEL J. PALMISANO

Until we get decent weather as far as lessening of the winds, we're gonna continue to have an above ...
CHUCK PALMISANO

Generally speaking, when we get better rains the pig numbers tend to go up; when we have droughts th...
TERRY PALMISANO

We still don't know what this is going to mean, but we believe it is going to increase breeding.
CHUCK PALMISANO

The first ones are going very smoothly, but they're often the easiest ones to catch.
TERRY PALMISANO

We're trying to get the number down to zero. It is such a catastrophe when this happens.
DONALD PALMISANO

You should really filter information about diagnosis and treatment through your physician. The Inter...
DONALD PALMISANO

Physicians and patients have no understanding how insurers come up with these usual and customary fe...
DONALD PALMISANO

The Internet can be an important tool to enhance the practice of medicine. But we must never let tec...
DONALD PALMISANO

What we need is a system that's fair to everyone, a system that keeps the physicians in practice and...
DONALD PALMISANO

Junk science has no place in the courtroom. It increases the cost of litigation.
DONALD PALMISANO

You can see the competitive reaction quite honestly as an endorsement of the IBM strategy.
SAM PALMISANO

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT

No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT

I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT

When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT

You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT

I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT

I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT

People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT

A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT

I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT

Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS

I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS

I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS

When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS

My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT

In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT

The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT

There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE

I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS

There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT

It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT

I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE

What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER

I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN

The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN

Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN

On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN

The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN

Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN

I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER

Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL

The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL

The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

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