Top 23 Thomas Watson Jr. Quotes
#1. The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
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#2. 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.
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#3. The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
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#4. 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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#5. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
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#6. Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
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#7. Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.
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#9. There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
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#10. None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
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#12. I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
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#13. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help."
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#14. The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.
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#15. Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
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#17. The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
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#18. Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
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#19. 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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#20. I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.
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#22. If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.
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#23. 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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