Lou Gerstner Quotes About Ibm

Quotes about: Ibm

• Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

  Lou Gerstner

  Business, Makeup, Games

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround". Book by Louis V. Gerstner Jr., 2002.

• The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

  Lou Gerstner

  Vision, Needs, Lasts

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

  Lou Gerstner

  Leadership, Next, Ibm

• 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. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Years, Salary

• When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

  Lou Gerstner

  Spain, Looks, Problem

• 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.

  Lou Gerstner

  Team, People, Pay

• The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

  Lou Gerstner

  Excellence, Culture, I Have Learned

• I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.

  Lou Gerstner

  Games, Culture, Aspect

  "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?". Book by Lou Gerstner, 2002.

• 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.

  Lou Gerstner

  Team, People, Leader

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

• IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

  Lou Gerstner

  Enormous, Ibm, Needed

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

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Size, Used

• I want to take IBM back to its roots.

  Lou Gerstner

  Roots, Want, Ibm

• 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

  Cynical, Promise, Vision

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