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.

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?

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

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.