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

• I just want to have fun.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Have Fun

• I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • House
  • Never
  • Someone

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

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • 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

• It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Men
  • Gold

• 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

• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Mother

• It's a funny thing, 'The Office,' because millions and millions and millions and millions of people didn't watch it. But culturally, it is more of a phenomenon than almost anything else I can remember as far as British television is concerned.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Funny

• Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Atheism
  • Senseless
  • Odious

• Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Sports
  • Discipline
  • motivation

• In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Summer
  • Chicago

• I want to take IBM back to its roots.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.