"You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news."

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Source : Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.386, Bantam

Thomas J. Watson

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“To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.”
“I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.”
“All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?”

Source : "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.
“When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think.”
“Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.”
“Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.”
“I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.”

Source : Source: www.djbooth.net
“90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.”

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