"The thing I have learned at IBM is……" — Lou Gerstner

"The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything."

— Lou Gerstner

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52 Quotes by Lou Gerstner

Lou Gerstner has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over…
For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions
No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something…
I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies…
Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end,…
You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.
You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can…
In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're…
The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of… — Hannah Arendt
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because… — Aristotle
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your… — Antonin Artaud
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or… — Michelle Bachelet
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really… — Erykah Badu
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to… — Joan Baez
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on… — Pearl Bailey

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