Thomas J. Watson Sr.

"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate."

"Nothing is more important than vision. It is the ability to see the invisible."

"You must want to succeed as badly as you want to breathe."

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand almost anything. It's your mind you need to convince."

"When you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

"Think, think, think."

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

"If you want to increase your success rate, you have to double your failure rate."

"I'm convinced that nothing important happens by accident. It all happens by design."

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

"Computers are to business what a sewing machine is to tailoring."

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

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

"Invest in yourself; it pays the best interest."

"The greatest computer is the human brain."

"Organization is the basis of any success."

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

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

"More companies die from overeating than from starvation."

"You cannot be successful in anything if you do not believe you can do it."

"Beware of the person who has nothing to lose."

"The real difference between people is not how much they earn, but how much they spend."

"Every innovation begins with an act of imagination."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"I believe that the responsibility for loss of life lies with the commander who has not provided the best system he possibly can."

"You are the sum of your choices."

"The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom."

"Great minds must work together; that is the law of nature."