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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
American
March 1, 1942
Businessman
Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
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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.
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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.
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I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
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It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
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