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
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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.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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God made man of the dust of the earth and man makes a god of the dust of the earth
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All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
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I think there is a world market for about five computers.
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So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
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The two Testaments are the two lips by which God hath spoken to us.
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When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight
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God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
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Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
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It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
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What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
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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.