Thomas J. Watson Quotes
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
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.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
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.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
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.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.
