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

That phrase became the slogan of both the ICC and IBM. His indignation on making this discovery was such that he quit and moved from his familiar surroundings to the relative metropolis of Buffalo. The company stationery matches scratch pads all bear the inscription THINK.

A leading self-made industrialist he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956. (February 17 1874 – June 19 1956) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.