Phrase by 'Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.'

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I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Want , History , Go , Student


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

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  You , Successful , Up , Ground


The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  You , Value , Grow , Real


The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Time , Start , World , Technology


When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.'

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Me , People , Team , Performance


Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Lunch , I Am , Coffee , Meetings


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

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Life , You , World , Success


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

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  You , Never , Lose , Success


The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Next , Back , Better , Leadership


Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

Author: Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. - American Businessman
  Nobody , Make , Believe , I Believe


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