Thomas J. Watson
Thomas J. Watson
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. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth17 February 1874
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas J. Watson quotes about
Success is on the far side of failure.
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.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.