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.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
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In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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I'm one of those guys who loses weight during the season.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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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.
