“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and you...” — Thomas J. Watson Quote

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

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

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

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

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.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.

My business is to prevent the future.

If the white folks feel America is great for everybody, I don't want to change what they love. All I want is to bring my love and respect in the areas of law, policy, business, and banking. That's what I do when I do my extremely rare lectures at universities.

My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.