"You don't get points for predicting rain. You……" — Lou Gerstner
"You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks."
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52 Quotes by Lou Gerstner
Lou Gerstner has 52 quotes on this site.
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It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
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Vision is easy. It's so easy to just point to the bleachers and say I'm going to hit one over…
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For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions
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No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something…
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The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.
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I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies…
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Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end,…
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You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can…
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In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
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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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The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.
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More Ark Quotes
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one of 90 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert.…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into…
— Thomas Dolby
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The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have…
— Joan Rivers
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties…
— Herman Melville
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Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their…
— Paul Washer
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
— Richard Cushing
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
— Ted Shackelford
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find…
— Peter Singer
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