Thomas J. Watson Business Quotations

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

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?

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

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