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Inspirational Quotes by Lou Gerstner
- The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.
- You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.
- We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.
- Everything starts with the customer.
- Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.
- Never confuse activity with results.
- The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
- Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so.
- I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words.
- I want to take IBM back to its roots.
- I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.
- People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.
- Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento