Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes

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.

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• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decisions

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Father
  • Best
  • Boy

• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
  • Story
  • Look

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Work
  • Will
  • Well

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Risk

• I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

  

  Charles J. Shields
  • World
  • Experience
  • War

• We are excited to see how PayPal's global payment platform can help small businesses in Cuba thrive and grow by making it easier to connect to international markets.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Help
  • Small

• I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.

  

  John Malkovich
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Time
  • World
  • Technology