Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Quotes
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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If there is anyone who still wonders why this war is being fought, let him look to Norway. If there is anyone who has any delusions that this war could have been averted, let him look to Norway; and if there is anyone who doubts the democratic will to win, again I say, let him look to Norway.
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In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!
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The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.
