We Built This Company From The Customer

The More Successful Enterprises Are The More They Try To Replicate, Duplicate, Codify What Makes Us Great. And Suddenly They're Inward Thinking. They're Thinking How Can We Continue To Do What We've Done In The Past Without Understanding That What Made Them Successful Is To Take Risks, To Change And To Adapt And To Be Responsive. And So In A Sense Success Breeds Its Own Failure. And I Think It's True Of A Lot Of Successful Businesses.

No Institution Will Go Through Fundamental Change Unless It Believes It Is In Deep Trouble And Needs To Do Something Different To Survive.

Technology Has Limitations On What It Can Accomplish. You Do Not.

The Last Thing Ibm Needs Right Now Is A Vision.

Lou Gerstner Knows How To Do A Deal, And George Bush Sr., Less So.