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.

Good design is good business.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

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 good.

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.

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

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

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

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.

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

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.

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.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.

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 will find success.

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

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that its very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

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 good.

You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes make all you can. Because remember thats where youll find success on the far side of failure.

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

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.