Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Black
  • Stereotypes

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Covered

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Health
  • Like
  • Place

• If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
  • You
  • Trump

• I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Creating

• God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Soul

• Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Logic

• Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Gun
  • Flower

• It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Real
  • Heart

• Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg

• The world’s karma will get the best of him. It’s not my job to do that.

  

  Jordan Pruitt
  • Job
  • To Do
  • Karma

• Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Everyday
  • Week
  • Hours

• We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Moving

• Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Justice
  • Enough
  • Influence

• I want to take IBM back to its roots.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.