Top 34 Thomas J Watson Jr Quotes
#1. 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.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#2. The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#3. Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#4. I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.
Bernard Goldberg
#5. Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.
Perry Brass
#7. ..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...
Nadia Hashimi
#8. The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#9. Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#10. 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."
Thomas Watson Jr.
#11. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#12. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#14. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.
Gary Zukav
#15. If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#16. As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
#17. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#18. Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#20. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#21. The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#22. Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.
Catherynne M Valente
#23. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#24. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#25. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#26. A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
Theodore W. Parker
#27. The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#28. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#30. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#31. 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.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#32. None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#34. I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
Thomas Watson Jr.
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