top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Ability quotes
"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."
"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."
Explore more quotes by Thomas J. Watson
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."
"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."
"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."
bottom of page