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Good design is good business. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#business #good

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#doing #excellence #get #quit #second

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#between #build #building #customer #destroy

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#controversy #crackpot #danger #expose #fear

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#failure #increase #rate #success #want

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

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 of failure. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#because #discouraged #failure #far #find

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#cautious #how #i #know #minister

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. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#beyond #calmer #done #future #got

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