Quote by Robert Cringely

“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

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…

— Thomas J. Watson

“Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In”

— Gerald M. Weinberg

“IBM today has a split personality in this regard because top executives are paid well while lower executives and workers in general are paid…

— Robert Cringely

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in…

— Ginni Rometty

“Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy…

— Andy Grove

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

— Scott Howell

“Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic—a totally streamlined organization in…

— Thomas J. Watson

IBM has a very solid business image.

— Helmut Jahn

The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.

— Adam Lashinsky

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. Thomas J. Watson, Former Chairman and CEO of IBM”

— Dan Siroker

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