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.

It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.

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

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

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

A manager is an assistant to his men.

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.