If you want to achieve excellence, you can get the... -Thomas J. Watson

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

Thomas J. Watson , Businessman
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Thomas J. Watson Quotes to Explore

Good design is good business....
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people....
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm....
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....
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 emphasi...
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use....
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 'crackp...
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart....
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....
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops....

Work Quotes to Explore

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work....
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around....
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it....
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work....
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success....
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work....
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard....
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're ...
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you ...
I'm just not a guy that loves to eat. I love to work and love to work out. I think I go against all the nutritionists who say you need to do this or n...