"What I'm trying to do is deliver results,……" — Lou Gerstner

"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."

— 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 Concepts Quotes

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products… — Hans Bender
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal… — Dan Brown
Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then… — H. Rap Brown
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity.… — Tony Campolo
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from… — Tadao Ando
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and… — Warren E. Burger
Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born… — James A. Baldwin
I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. — Byron Katie
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to… — Robert Foster Bennett

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