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.

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.

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.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Good design is good business.

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.

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

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

Success is on the far side of failure.

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

I was just trying to remove a stain

Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

I think sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I am.

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.