Good design is good business.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
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 exp...
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.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
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 su...
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for go...
We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
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.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former c...
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.