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The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision. — Lou Gerstner

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything. — Lou Gerstner

Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so. — Lou Gerstner

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn. — Lou Gerstner

I want to take IBM back to its roots. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Everything starts with the customer. — Lou Gerstner

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works. — John H. Gerstner

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. — Lou Gerstner

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out. — Lou Gerstner

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency. — Lou Gerstner

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov. — Lou Gerstner

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words. — Lou Gerstner

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

If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person. — John Gerstner

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks. — Lou Gerstner

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive. — Lou Gerstner

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions — Lou Gerstner

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game — Lou Gerstner

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture. — Lou Gerstner

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk. — Lou Gerstner

I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians. — Lou Gerstner

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.