Thomas John Watson, Sr.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

I thought I’d be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris. It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

I really believe that being in the moment is the key to happiness and success, and being constantly glued to your phone can have a big impact on your relationship.

My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.