"We built this company from the customer back,……" — Lou Gerstner

"We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out."

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

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More Built Quotes

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Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it. — Margaret Atwood
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise… — Sai Baba
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that… — Ibrahim Babangida
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit… — Christian Bale
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is… — Ansel Adams
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where… — Afrika Bambaataa
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all… — Amelia Barr
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family… — Gary Bauer

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