Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes

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.

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A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

Jimmy Gomez

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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.

John Sergeant Wise

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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Stephen Ambrose

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Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'

Rob Lowe

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We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

Rodrigo Duterte

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We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare.

Mary Beard

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For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'

Mat Kearney

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I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

Josh Trank

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My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.

Christopher Guest

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I don't dwell on it. But I guess everybody hopes that they go in their sleep and that it won't be long and painful.

Peter Falk

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