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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The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
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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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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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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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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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It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
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The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.
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Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
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The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.
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Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
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None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.