Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so.

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.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

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.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.