Thomas J. Watson Quotes

Browse 6 quotes from Thomas J. Watson, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. 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 will find success.
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.

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