Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Watson - Page 2

"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.