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Good design is good business.

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Thomas Watson, Jr.
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 14
Died: 1993
Died: December 31
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Ohio
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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
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Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
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The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.
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The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.
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If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
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Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
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Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.
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None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
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The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.
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