33 Quotes by Thomas Watson, Jr.

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

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

Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

There’s a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you’re a little ahead of your time, you’re an eccentric, and if you’re too late, you’re a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you’re a genius.

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...

When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say “that will help.”