Gerstner Ibm Quotes & Sayings

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. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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. — 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 without a group of IBMers helping me. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

I want to take IBM back to its roots. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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

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

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.' — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything. — Lou Gerstner

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.

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

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency. — Lou Gerstner

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision. — Lou Gerstner

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.