Ginni Rometty

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1,854 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2023 last heard 21 Feb

Ginni Rometty’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And on one end, tragedy, right?

My father leaves my mother homeless, no money, no food, nothing, four kids.

She's never worked a day in her life outside of a home.

And the irony that I hear I would end up as the ninth CEO of one of America's iconic companies.

And now I co-chair this group 110.

And that journey, I said, the biggest thing I learned was you could do really hard, meaningful things in a positive way.

So now you ask me about why do I work so hard?

I ended up writing the book in three pieces for this reason.

When you really think of your life and power, I thought,

it kind of fell like a pebble in water.

Like there's a ring about, you really care about yourself and like the power of yourself, power of me.

There's a time it transcends to that you are working with and for others and another moment when it becomes like about society.

So my hard work,

I'd ask you, one day sit really hard and think about when you close your eyes, who do you see from your early life, right?

And what did you learn?

And maybe it's not that hard for you.

I mean, it's funny the things then,

If I really looked at it, it's no surprise what I do today.

And that hard work part, my great-grandma, as you and I were comparing notes on Russia, right?

And never spoke English, spoke Russian, came here to this country, was a cleaning person at the Wrigley Building in Chicago.

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