181 Quotes by Thomas J. Watson

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

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

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.

Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

When asked how to achieve success more rapidly, came the quick reply, 'Double your failure rate'.

Success is on the far side of failure.

The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.

Do they think the tree of blessing will drop its fruit into their mouth when they never shook it by prayer? God does not set His mercies at so low a rate as to cast them away upon those who do not seek them, Ezekiel 36:37.