Thomas J. Watson

"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."

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work."

"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."

"A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps."

"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."

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."