Thomas Watson Ibm Quotes

#1. A story just isn't a story without a dragon.

H.B. Bolton

#2. If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. Love makes people so stupid.

Magnus Flyte

#4. The social custom of calling on people when they are unwell has always mystified me. By definition, you're not feeling or looking your best. Why on earth do people assume you might want visitors?

Mary Louise Kelly

#5. You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.

Christopher Moore

#6. (Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots - but I stay around those spots.")

Warren Buffett

#7. He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.

Jim Butcher

#8. What keeps this boy going...is the intense feeling of not wanting to be alone.

Hotaru Odagiri

#9. And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Michio Kaku

#10. Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

Harvey MacKay

#11. Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

Jude Morgan

#12. I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

John Ridley

#13. You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

Henry James

#14. The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#15. You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

Geoffrey Hinton

#16. Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

Groucho Marx

#17. This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

Thomas Watson

#18. Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Thomas J. Watson

#19. It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

Robert Fisk

#20. My advice to you, Elsie, is go with your heart, not your head, because your head doesn't know what it wants. It only thinks about the moral high ground. And if your heart isn't happy, when you try to share it, you'll make others unhappy too.

Sarah Alexander

#21. A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Tom Peters

#22. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.

Thomas J. Watson

#23. If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Thomas Watson