The best Quotes by Thomas J. Watson

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

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.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

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.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Without progress there will be stagnation and decay. There again, progress for progress's sake must be discouraged, for our tried and tested traditions often require no tinkering. A balance, then, between old and new, between permanence and change, between tradition and innovation.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Great companies are built on great products.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.

It's not technology that makes history, but the people who invented it.

I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.

Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth. That is why they won't open source their algorithm.

ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.

We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

High expectations are the key to everything.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.