Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman.
He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines and oversaw the company’s growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.
Born: February 17, 1874, l, New York, United States
Died: June 19, 1956, New York, United States
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps
Good design is good business.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
You don’t hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
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?
A manager is an assistant to his men.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
I think there is a world market for about five computers.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
