Getting fired Quote by Gerald M. Weinberg

“It’s been said every institution is nothing more, but the extended shadow of one person. In IBM’s case, that was Thomas J. Watson, Sr.”

— BusinessNews Publishing

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can…

— Tom Peters

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

“I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about…

— Mike Massimino

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

— Roy Romer

“Competitively, I’m looking for the edge. I need to shave off inefficiencies and get rid of this Beard of Mediocrity.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Steve Jobs for instance reflected on his feelings about being fired from Apple. Here is what he said: “I didn’t see it then, but…

— Life Hacks Books

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

— Anonymous

“He felt singularly light-hearted, and the immediate cause was his safety razor. A week ago he had bought the thing in a sudden fit…

— John Buchan

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

— Bill Gates

“If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.”

— Connie Brockway

“Since its founding in 1911 up until 1993, IBM had never laid off a single employee. Akers needed to, but somehow couldn’t bring himself…

— Robert Cringely