Watson, Thomas J.

"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?"

"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."

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

"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."