Business Quote by Thomas J. Watson

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

— Anonymous

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

IBM has a very solid business image.

— Helmut Jahn

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

— Lou Gerstner

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

— Roy Romer

It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't…

— Al Ries

Why IBM? We have tremendous expertise. One of the reasons we can drive phenomenal efficiency around the world is because we've made IBM an…

— Samuel J. Palmisano

“The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and…

— James T. Patterson

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

— Lou Gerstner

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

— Bill Gates

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business…

— Clayton Christensen