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"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
"When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with."
"I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient."
Explore more quotes by Thomas J. Watson
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."
"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."
"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."
"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."
"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
"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."
"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."
"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."
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