Never confuse activity with results.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

When I arrived at IBM, there were 'Team' signs all around. I asked, 'How do people get paid?' They told me, 'We pay people based on individual performance.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.