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. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
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. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
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%. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
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. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
You know, you don’t need a leader to sort of administer something that’s going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
I’ve been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That’s a form of electronic marketplace. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Read Quote
