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.

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.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

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.

Success is on the far side of failure.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.