“Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.”

“Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.”

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”

“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”

“Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.”

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.”

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.”

“You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.”

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”

“Good design is good business.”