Belief Quote by Thomas Watson

“Watson demanded total loyalty to the corporation from everybody it employed. ‘Joining a company,’ he would tell his staff, ‘is an act that calls…

— James Essinger

“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

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

— Dan Siroker

“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

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

“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

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

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's…

— Buck Rodgers

“Big Thinkers like IBM’s Watson are programmed and named to sound like men.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.

— Ginni Rometty

IBM has a very solid business image.

— Helmut Jahn

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