You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.
Lou Gerstner
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If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.
When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.
It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.
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Books are boring, " James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown, " I offered.
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
I think reality television is such a special talent.
If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!
Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.
