Thomas Watson Sr.

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart."

"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."

"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."

"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

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

"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy."

"THINK."

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy."

"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think."

"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate, and generous—not just to some people in some circumstances—but to everyone all the time."