33 Quotes by Thomas Watson, Jr.

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..

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.