Quotes from Thomas Watson

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.