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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It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.
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The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
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I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
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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.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
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If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.
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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.
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The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.