Quotes from Thomas Watson, Jr.

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

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.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.

The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.

The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.

The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.