(25 quotes found)
“Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
“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.”
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.”
“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.”
“The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly exceed them.”
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
“Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.”