Sam Palmisano Quotes (6 Quotes)

Clearly we are suffering from hyper-growth, over-investment and expansion of the dot-com bubble,

IBM had a good quarter. It showed the strength of our business model across hardware, software and services.

I've been here for 33 years. I understand. This was a very, very hard thing for me to do personally.

Why IBM We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an e-business.

Dell is outperforming us. We're doing better than Compaq, but we're hanging in there. We're trying to make sure in this business we're not losing a lot of money, ... It's not hurting us economically, it's not impacting our earnings per share, but we're not doing what Dell is doing in the industry.

We're seeing people planning for next year around the world to begin to take up spending in IT, ... We haven't seen that in the past couple of years. That's modest growth, but still, it's better than people reducing their spending.