Thomas John Watson, Sr. Quotes

USA IBM executive and art collector (1874-1956)

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Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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

A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

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.

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