Hans Wilsdorf famous quotes

We want to be the first in the field and Rolex should be seen as the one and only-the best.
-- Hans Wilsdorf

#Firsts #Want #Fields

It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.
-- Hans Wilsdorf

#Quality #Lows #Contrary

My personal opinion...is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.
-- Hans Wilsdorf

#Personal Opinions #Pocket Watches #Pockets

For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.
-- Hans Wilsdorf

#Years #Ideas #Marketing

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.