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
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It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.
I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.
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The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
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The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
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I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
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The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
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If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.
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The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.
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If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
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The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.
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None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.