Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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• When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Friends
  • Common
  • Fast

• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Give
  • Chastity

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Romantic
  • Hard
  • Comedies

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Rights
  • Where
  • Limit

• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• I always had confidence in my game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Always
  • Confidence

• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Memory

• People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Movies
  • Choice

• I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Movies

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Trying
  • Years

• I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

  

  Art Linkletter
  • Success
  • Small

• Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Success
  • Failure

• Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Die

• You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Success