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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#company #cost #employee #experience #fire

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#enthusiasm #great #ideas #man #resulted

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#am #behind #certain #die #earth

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#count #doing #pointless #something #spend

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ↗

— Alan Watts

#defined #everything #impossible #loving #other

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#completely #different #god #mosque #natural

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#home #house #life #my life #representatives