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Wikipedia Summary for Thomas Watson, Jr.
Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, political figure, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. Son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the 2nd company president (1952–71), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68), and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–81). He received many honors during his lifetime, including being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Fortune called him "the greatest capitalist in history" and Time listed him as one of "100 most influential people of the 20th century".
Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.
If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.
The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.
I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.