Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

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

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

My parents always told me never be a follower, always be a leader. It's very difficult to do, to step out and be different and not follow the norm. If you want what's best for your team, you gotta be different.

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.