Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson
Turned International Business Machines (IBM) into a force with which to be reckoned while chairman and CEO from 1914 until 1956.
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 February 1874
CityDayton, OH
loyalty spring spirit
This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
loyalty art hero
"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."
educational chance like-you
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.
godly evil grace
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
educational lying water
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.
spiritual prayer heart
God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.
cups wealth estates
It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
purpose crowns free-will
This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.
adversity affliction may
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
adversity wings sorrow
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
adversity sea evil
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
prayer men hands
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
prayer faithless
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
prayer father breathing
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.