Thomas J. Watson Quotes

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. ...

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primar...

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his he...

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go o...

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lea...

We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than pe...

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...

Good design is good business.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergen...

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to de...

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all...

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $6...