"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
-Thomas J. Watson
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"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.“
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"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."
-Thomas J. Watson
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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."
-Thomas J. Watson
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"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."
-Thomas J. Watson
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"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
-Thomas J. Watson
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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