Thomas J. Watson Quotes

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!