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Entrepreneurial Words of Wisdom: Thomas J. Watson

Thomas Watson was an American businessman and most famous as the leader of IBM. Here are some of his ideas:

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people
The way to succeed is to double your error rate
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
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm
Good design is good business
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
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
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
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops
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
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use
A manager is an assistant to his men

I especially like his thoughts on design.

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