Thomas John Watson Sr Famous Quotes
"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
"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."
"Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... 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."
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
"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"
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
Thomas John Watson Sr Quotations
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
Latin Proverb
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
Jane Addams
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand Russell
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Laertius Diogenes
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles.
Joe Moore
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.
Judith Pugh
"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy."
Frank Shutts
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Anonymous
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
James Thurber