Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. quote: "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."

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the hu...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-drive...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leader...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it withou...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to,...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services a...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lo...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get p...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The fundamental issue is: In the world of the Internet, is there a place for a packager of services?...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills ...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter insi...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation un...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would e...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're r...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organiza...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acq...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can ...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the hu...
LOUIS GERSTNER

In each instance, Sam has done far more than manage operations effectively, ... He has made it both ...
LOUIS GERSTNER

we are facing a number of significant short-term issues, including an uncertain global economic envi...
LOUIS GERSTNER

Services is clearly the largest and fastest-growing portion of the information technology industry, ...
LOUIS GERSTNER

[IBM itself is very positive about the recent quarter.] We achieved good earnings results despite a ...
LOUIS GERSTNER

On the positive side, our services revenue grew by nearly $1 billion and this business made a major ...
LOUIS GERSTNER

Results from these areas more than offset revenue declines in some other segments, most notably our ...
LOUIS GERSTNER

Our biggest constraint is hiring good people. The demand is almost [insatiable] and it's serious dem...
LOUIS GERSTNER

I think the visit is very important...very important for China and very important for the United Sta...
LOUIS GERSTNER

I would admit to you that we could take some credit, but there's a fair amount of luck in that too,
LOUIS GERSTNER

Everything starts with the customer.
JR. GERSTNER

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a ...
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they&#...
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.

My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nie...
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.

I was at Woodstock. In the mud.
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.

I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult ...
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
LOU GERSTNER

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
LOU GERSTNER

We're probably about five years into a 30-year cycle of transformation, ... But there is simply no d...
LOU GERSTNER

That's where the semiconductor industry is moving today, ... It really is becoming a very different ...
LOU GERSTNER

Over the past 12 month we have made a series of strategic decisions that have affected short term re...
LOU GERSTNER

Y2K continued to hurt us, but that's over now, ... We're putting it behind us and we are getting our...
LOU GERSTNER

Chapter One (of the Internet) was about e-commerce and e-business. Chapter Two moves us to 'Do it fo...
LOU GERSTNER

Five years ago, using the Net to buy a car or trade stock or earn college credits was revolutionary,...
LOU GERSTNER

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

[He said a Wall Street Journal article in April 1999 that questioned his military and educational ba...
LOU GERSTNER

Unless we arrest the wasting decline of our public schools America is destined to be an also-ran in ...
LOU GERSTNER

Looking with other pretty ladies means I admire beauty co’z if I’m not, I didn't meet you (“,)
DENZIL V. PARRENO JR.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.
JOHN H. GERSTNER

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded o...
V. VALE

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the...
CHARLES V

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V

What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
CHARLES V

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
CHARLES V

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes th...
CHARLES V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
CHARLES V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball
CHARLES V

I came, I saw, God conquered.
CHARLES V

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven
CHARLES V

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
CHARLES V

We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers a...
CHARLES V

Jesus fuck. I’m sitting right fucking here, Prez. Maybe shelve the porn a little, yeah?
V. THEIA

Hope was a weak rebellion not meant for the likes of him.
V. THEIA

He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a p...
V. THEIA

His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was...
V. THEIA

There was some biblical irony in that somewhere only Mary Magdalene would understand hitting above h...
V. THEIA

He felt at peace knowing his little bit of a thing was safe and recovering inside.
V. THEIA

Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something n...
V. THEIA

He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. THEIA

Hawk was a fucking selfless savior, practically a saint. Where were his wings?
V. THEIA

She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ...
V. THEIA

He wasn’t good. He was a goddamn cruel bastard.
V. THEIA

His little bit of a thing was an addiction he shared with no one.
V. THEIA

For what it was worth he already knew he resembled a pissed off serial killer most of the time, he w...
V. THEIA

He watched with his predator eyes.
The hunger in them unmasked.
He was addicted.
H...
V. THEIA

A man once said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting diff...
V. THEIA

A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a seri...
KARTHIKEYAN V

Divorce is like a death but with intent
KATHIEY V.

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades.
JR

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecti...
JR

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have n...
JR

With 'Inside Out,' no matter how good the photo or how big the pasting, people will like it ...
JR

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an...
JR

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't s...
JR

The Internet doesn't always play a great role for art, especially art in the street, as people t...
JR

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' I...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world.
JR

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.
JR

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house...
JR

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present ...
JR

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become...
JR

I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.
JR

With humour, there is life.
JR

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I h...
JR

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?
JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an...
JR

If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.
JR

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people...
JR

What we see changes who we are.
JR

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR

There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR

There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR

Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR

At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR

A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR

Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY)

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while t...
EUGENE V. DEBS

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was ha...
T. V. CARPIO

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
T. V. CARPIO

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. PRITCHETT

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place ...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. NAIPAUL

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
V. S. NAIPAUL

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people&#...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
V. S. NAIPAUL

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situatio...
V. S. NAIPAUL

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that i...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishi...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral h...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. NAIPAUL

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thin...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of...
V. S. NAIPAUL

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the myste...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to fe...
V. S. NAIPAUL

The world is always in movement.
V. S. NAIPAUL

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. NAIPAUL

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
V. S. NAIPAUL

A cat only has itself.
V. S. NAIPAUL

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
V. S. NAIPAUL

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where t...
V. E. SCHWAB

I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley an...
V. E. SCHWAB

I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remem...
V. E. SCHWAB

I like to play with tropes.
V. E. SCHWAB

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging fro...
V. E. SCHWAB

I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, ...
V. E. SCHWAB

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enou...
V. E. SCHWAB

I'm pagan.
V. E. SCHWAB

It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out ma...
V. E. SCHWAB

It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
V. E. SCHWAB

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. I...
V. E. SCHWAB

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I hav...
V. E. SCHWAB

So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as...
V. E. SCHWAB

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across ...
KING GEORGE V

Nothing is wasted.
E. V. LUCAS

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its language...
E. V. LUCAS

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. LUCAS

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
E. V. LUCAS

The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS

There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS

There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE

It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that ...
MARK V. HURD

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS

The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS

There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU

How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V

It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LUCAS

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
ANDREW V. MADSON

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage an...
JAMES V. FORRESTAL

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. PRITCHETT

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against ...
E. V. COOKE

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.
E. V. COOKE

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS

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.

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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.

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