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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world.

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

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

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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.

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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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This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

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

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Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

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The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 1st, 1942

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