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Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Business
Design
Good Business
Good Design
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A manager is an assistant to his men.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Men
Assistants
Risk Management
Assistant
Manager
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Success is on the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Success
Failure
Fear
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Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Teacher
Harsh
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The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Failure
Inspiration
Motivation
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If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Inspirational
Failure
Giving Up
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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Success
Failure
Increase
Rate
Want
Success Failure Your
You
Double
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Knowledge
Power
Wisdom
Time
Our Time
Proper
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The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Best Way
Reports
Supervise
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Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Loyalty
Decision
Tears
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Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Success
Business
Bus Stops
Congratulations
Individual
Progress
Attained
Stops
Whenever
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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Motivational
Success
Business
Men
Enthusiasm
Ideas
Transmission
Accomplishments
Resulted
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To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Success
Business
Heart
Successful
Success Business Your
You
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When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Achieve
Rate
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Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Lying
Succeed
Want
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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Early Work
Loses
Organization
Pioneering
Progress
Spirit
Early
Stops
Rests
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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Friends
Comfortable
Force
Will
Yourself
Make
Who
Lever
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It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Motivational
Bridges
Determination
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Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Leadership
Motivational
Business
Men
Ability
Nothing
Does
Day
Lead
Himself
Proves
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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.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Achieve
Excellence
Today
Quit
Second
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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Death
Business
Design
Aesthetic
Aesthetic Beauty
Design Process
Above
Practical
Primarily
Reflect
Serve
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Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money as he is capable of earning.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Capable
Every Man
As Much Money
Case
Earn
Just As Much
Treat
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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Business
Fun
Happens
Myself Game Fun
Game
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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.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Change
Business
Chance
Block
Ibm
Moved
Something New
Take A Chance
Willing
Ahead
Time Chance New
Every Time
Head
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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.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Business
Bad News
News
Scratches
Tidings
Good Bad News
Good Your Bad
Good Bad Easy
Hear
Scratch
Unless
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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Life
Leadership
Motivational
Circumstances
Considerate
Courteous
Generous
Time People Everything
Above
Everything Else
Some People
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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 J. Watson / Business Person
Life
Motivational
Fear
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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 J. Watson / Business Person
Independence
Conformity
Controversy
Danger
Ideas
Independent
Mind
Path
Speak
Stigma
Thinker
Unsafe
Less
Expose
Follow
Label
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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 J. Watson / Business Person
Inspirational
Success
Failure
Discouraged
Mistake
Remember
Sides
Because
Go
Ahead
Mistakes
Make
Side
Find
Far
Learn
Where
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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 / Business Person
Trust
Building
Difficult
Easy
Essence
Build
Between
Customer
Destroy
Emphasize
Similarities
Toughest
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It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Failure
Teacher
Mistake
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Conformity
Remember
Time Good Man
Stand
Again
Counted
Flattened
From Time To Time
Opponent
Stand Up
Stays
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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 J. Watson / Business Person
Experience
Business
Company
Cost
Employee
Fire
Made
Mistake
Training
Why
Somebody
Asked
Him
Hire
His
Would
Recently
Replied
Spent
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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson / Business Person
Work
Men
Devices
Hard
Hard Work
Order
Thinking
Trouble
Willing
Very
Could
Easily
Often
Sort
Problems
Resort
Settled
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