The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

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.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.