Thomas J. Watson

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

Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot in front of the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

You never fail until you stop trying.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we think we deserve… ask for more.

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

Love gets unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it