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
philosophy cows sacred
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
emergencies energy arise
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
friendship entrepreneur levers
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
being-strong spiritual character
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
perseverance men may
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.
success encouraging simple
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
failure want succeed
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
ahead double enemy failure far formula learn quite rate remember thinking
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure / or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
beyond future industry newspaper slower time
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.
generally
If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.
bent life news others police public spun web
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.
glenn
I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
government running
The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
brilliant links love nature
The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.