“His other deals had tended to bring together companies from the same industry horizontally, or merge customers with their suppliers vertically, or bring together firms involved in different steps of manufacturing or marketing: this was known as a circular merger.… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Most organisations, when they would dream of the exaltations of the present, roll their eyes backward. The International Business Machines Corporation has beheld no… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Hollerith regarded engineers as backroom boys who worked best when they were left alone. Watson, on the other hand, was quick to chase engineers… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions in business are taken as much for emotional reasons as for logical ones, perhaps even more so. The tabulators inspired a level… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Watson demanded total loyalty to the corporation from everybody it employed. ‘Joining a company,’ he would tell his staff, ‘is an act that calls… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Lady Byron noted with obvious approval that her daughter was more impressed with meeting scientists on Wednesday, June 5, 1833, rather than royalty. In… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Hollerith was at heart an academic inventor whose commercial success, though not his technological achievement, had in a sense been something of an accident.… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“The clash of Watson’s and Hollerith’s personalities was a classical example of a brash, energetic, visionary newcomer confronting a staid traditionalist.” — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“Hollerith learned a lesson that all vendors of data processing devices and computers have learned at some point: that the biggest market for information… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“IBM had its origins in Jacquard’s endeavours in Revolutionary France. And indeed IBM is, indeed, a direct descendant of the work that went on… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“One of Watson’s many passionately held beliefs was that too many people failed to fulfil their potential because they didn’t make enough effort to… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
“His other deals had tended to bring together companies from the same industry horizontally, or merge customers with their suppliers vertically, or bring together… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
