This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
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Less than three weeks before his death, in one of Watsons last public statements about his company, he observed It's this family spiritcombined with vision and faiththat has been responsible, perhaps more than anything else, for IBM's success.Thomas J. Watson
'If you are loyal you are successful,' ruminated the company paper at one time. 'All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the taskloyaltyis fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing.'
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Put First Things First These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.
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We must never feel satisfied.
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The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge.
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Speech celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1933 It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
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