Thomas J. Watson

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

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

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.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.