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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

By Thomas J. Watson
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

By Thomas J. Watson
THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.

By Thomas J. Watson
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along.

By Thomas J. Watson
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.

By Thomas J. Watson
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

By Thomas J. Watson
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.

By Thomas J. Watson
Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

By Thomas J. Watson
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

By Thomas J. Watson
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

By Thomas J. Watson