Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.”

“Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.”

“People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.”

“You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.”

“I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.”

“If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world.”

“A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.”

“I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.”

“I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.”

“Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.”