Ginni Rometty Quotes

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

Every 10 years the game changes.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

We need to reinvent ourselves.

You've always got to try and reinvent yourself.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.