Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians.
Lou Gerstner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lou Gerstner
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 1
Business Executive
Businessperson
Mineola
New York
Help
Helping
Problem
Sack
Look
Colleagues
Looks
Politicians
Work
Solve
People
Politician
Problems
More quotes by Lou Gerstner
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.
Lou Gerstner
In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
Lou Gerstner
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
Lou Gerstner
I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.
Lou Gerstner
If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?
Lou Gerstner
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.
Lou Gerstner
The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.
Lou Gerstner
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
Lou Gerstner
Never confuse activity with results.
Lou Gerstner
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Lou Gerstner
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.
Lou Gerstner
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form of electronic marketplace.
Lou Gerstner
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Lou Gerstner
My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.
Lou Gerstner
You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.
Lou Gerstner
Everything starts with the customer.
Lou Gerstner
I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
Lou Gerstner
We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.
Lou Gerstner
People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.
Lou Gerstner
IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.
Lou Gerstner
