Thomas J. Watson Quotes

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• Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.
• It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your…
• Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all…
• If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
• All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort…
• Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• A manager is an assistant to his men.
• 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…
• Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
• 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…
• 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…
• Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I…
• Success is on the far side of failure.

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