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
When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
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.
It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
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.
Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.
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.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
A manager is an assistant to his men.