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
prayer faithless
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
prayer father breathing
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
adversity sea evil
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
adversity wings sorrow
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
godly evil grace
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
grace affliction
Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.
loyalty art hero
"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."
christian ocean blessing
God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.
devil murmuring christianity
Our murmuring is the devil's music.
practice firsts sin
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
cups wealth estates
It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
purpose crowns free-will
This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.
loyalty spring spirit
This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
justice soul unjust
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.