Thomas J. Watson Quotes

American - Businessman | February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956

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

Thomas J. Watson

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Thomas J. Watson

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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Thomas J. Watson

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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 try something new.

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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

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

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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

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

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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

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