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Thomas J. Watson Quotes


President of International Business Machines, who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.
Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely around punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.

Here are some famous quotes by Thomas J. Watson.

Good design is good business.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

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If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.

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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

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We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.

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Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.