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 | "Nothing so conclusively proves a man"s ability to lead others as
what he does from day to day to lead himself." | |
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Found in the topic Leadership.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Play.
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| "What synchronism means to a clock, a convention means to our
organization; it enables those of us who are behind to catch up and get in
step with the others." | |
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Found in the topic Business.
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| "It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at
imperfection and hit it" | |
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Found in the topic Aim.
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| "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 treble our former capacities and to
amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by
others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The
outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and
constantly exceed them." | |
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Found in the topic Energy.
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| "If a man goes to work in the right spirit, work is no
hardship." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a
mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent
$600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his
experience?" | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "I think there"s a world market for about five computers. Quoted by
Charles Hard Townes In Martin Moskovits (Ed.), Science and Society, the
John C. Polanyi Nobel Lareates Lectures, Anansi Press, Concord, Ontario,
1995, p 8." | |
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Found in the topic Computer.
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| "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your
ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the
label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity." | |
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Found in the topic Thief.
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| "All great questions of politics and economics come down in the last
analysis to the decisions and actions of individual men and women. They
are questions of human relations, and we ought always to think about them
in terms of men and women?the individual human beings who are involved in
them. If we can get human relations on a proper basis, the statistics,
finance and all other complicated technical aspects of these questions
will be easier to solve." | |
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Found in the topic Easy.
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| "A message regarding the annual convention of the Advertising
Federation of America in NYC, June 14-18, 1931. Advertising has
illuminated the path of progress.... In building up desire, advertising
has spurred new endeavors. It is their creative work, their dynamic
presentations of products, their ability to teach and educate which have
made each of us desire better things. And in the fulfillment of our
desires, we have reached for and attained higher pinnacles in living
standards and a clearer conception of the values of life itself." | |
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Found in the topic Advertising.
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| "A message sent to all members of the American Sales Organization at
the opening of the IBM Election Prize Contest, September 1, 1932. In every
walk of life, the highest places and the greatest rewards go to those who
have the courage to attempt and ability to achieve big things. That is
true in science. It is true in government. It is true in business. And it
is true in this organization. IBM leaders in the past have proved their
worth by performance, just as they will in this sales campaign." | |
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Found in the topic Sales.
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| "We must all take time to do enough thinking to formulate our own
conclusions." | |
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Found in the topic Conclusions.
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| "The man who bases his actions on independent thought; who reflects
and considers before doing anything, and whose judgments are arrived at
through logic, is the man who will go farthest today." | |
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Found in the topic Thought.
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| "A tribute, published October 22, 1931, to Thomas Alva Edison upon
his death: THE passing of Thomas Alva Edison serves to direct our
attention to the multitude of benefactions he bestowed upon all humanity
during his many years of fruitful activity. It reminds us of the debt of
gratitude we owe him as members of the human race. By his achievements, he
laid the foundation for continued and greater development. His persistent
efforts and indefatigable spirit multiplied many times the valuable
opportunities for man, especially the young man. To each and every young
man, Mr. Edison left a legacy of opportunities." | |
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Found in the topic Epitaphs.
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| "What we do with our leisure time has considerable bearing on what we
accomplish during our working hours, and very largely determines the degree
of our success, Young men who, like yourselves, devote a predetermined
amount of their leisure hours to study and to serious thinking, are the
men who are going to progress far and fast. The business leaders of
tomorrow will be the young men of today?men like you who are preparing now
for the great future which lies ahead. You may view the future with
confidence, knowing that from the youth of today will emerge the leaders
of tomorrow." | |
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Found in the topic Leisure.
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| "Watson himself said that when he was able to develop loyalty in men,
ability followed. "Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute
loyalty in big matters and little ones," he declared. Criticism, if
necessary at all, was permitted only to superiors." | |
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Found in the topic Criticism.
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| "Princeton Universtiy, October 13, 1928: In order to be a success in
business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without
it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you
cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work?
Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work ? ENTHUSIASM.
That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and
the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a
thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was
lazy." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were
only willing to think." | |
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Found in the topic Problem.
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| "The secret I learned early on from my father was to run scared and
never think I had it made. I never felt I was completely adequate to the
job and always ran scared. The fundamental for our success was running
scared." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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