85 Quotes by Lou Gerstner

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

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.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

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.

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.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.