10 Leadership quotes by IBM's first CEO Thomas J Watson

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

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'll find success - on the far side of failure.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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