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
eye growth christianity
The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.
disappointment heart home
The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?
wind soul christianity
How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?
prayer angel prison
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
adversity affliction may
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
educational chance like-you
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.
loyalty commitment joining
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.
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.
prayer men hands
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
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.
prayer heart likes
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
prayer doors people
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
loyalty littles matter
Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.
prayer offering names
Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.