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Thomas J. Watson

Botanist

26 quotes in 124 categories

Thomas J. Watson is a botanist, best known for Affordable metal-matrix composites for high performance applications.

Quick Facts About Thomas J. Watson

Profession: Botanist
Notable works: Affordable metal-matrix composites for high performance applications

About Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Thomas J. Watson

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men…

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Devices

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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

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Business

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you…

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Bad news

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It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

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Bridges

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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

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Aesthetic

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Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is…

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Capable

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It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the…

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Common

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When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

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Achieve

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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but…

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Circumstances

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The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

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Best

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

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Knowledge

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less…

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Conformity

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Success is on the far side of failure.

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Creativity

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A manager is an assistant to his men.

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Management

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Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

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Failure

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The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence…

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Building

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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can.…

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Discouraged

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The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

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Rate

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Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.

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Decision

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the…

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Block

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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

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Early work

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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No,…

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Business

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

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Enthusiasm

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Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

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Failure

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

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Comfortable

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