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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.