Ginni Rometty Quotes

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

You never know what the future brings.

I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

The future is in our hands!

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

You never know what the future might hold.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.

And maybe, just maybe, it will.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

What happens next is up to you.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

It is what it is, it is what you make it.