Father, Son & Co. Quotes

“… as I associated with more and more different types, I realized that to make it, you had to get along with almost everybody. If you dislike the people you work with, you’d better not show it. I learned that to be a good leader, I had to strike a delicate balance.”
― Thomas J. Watson Jr., Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

“Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic—a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.”
― Thomas J. Watson, Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond