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

Thomas J. Watson
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  1. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

  2. No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. - Sigmund Freud

  3. We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing

  4. ..[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody... - Karl Marx

  5. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa

More Quotes By Thomas J. Watson
  1. Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.

  2. We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.

  3. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

  4. Good design is good business.

  5. Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

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