Quotes by Tom Watson

The key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its 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.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each task to the person best suited to it.

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.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

It is the function of leadership to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

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.

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.