I made my lifelong dream of attending Harvard University a reality when I realized someone has to do...
THOMAS J. POWELL Be very careful about the goals you set because quite often you achieve them.
THOMAS J. POWELL A successful person is the product of their life just the same as a failure. The difference is that ...
THOMAS J. POWELL Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and ...
THOMAS J. POWELL Life takes action. Pessimists say it can't be done so they do nothing. Optimists say it will be done...
THOMAS J. POWELL Time, love and money are similar in that they are our greatest friends when nurtured and cared for a...
THOMAS J. POWELL Mastering the art of under promising and over delivering requires the ability to say no, when and ho...
THOMAS J. POWELL Efficiency is only truly great when it is focused on effectiveness.
THOMAS J. POWELL What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.
THOMAS J. POWELL Don't live a balanced life. Live an integrated life.
THOMAS J. POWELL Small business will lead our recovery, but without access to capital, there is no recovery.
THOMAS J. POWELL Treasure doesn't have to be sought after...most of the time, it is right in front of your eyes, righ...
THOMAS J. POWELL I have found that a person is not a failure due to lack of opportunity, but because of failing to fo...
THOMAS J. POWELL America is the land of opportunity mostly because it applauds the achievements of the individual.
THOMAS J. POWELL The important things often are are the everyday things.
THOMAS J. POWELL Mastering the art of negotiation involves leading the other person to your conclusion while having t...
THOMAS J. POWELL What starts messy ends messy.
THOMAS J. POWELL Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we ...
THOMAS J. POWELL The best time to start improving the next ten years of your life is always - now. Why wait?
THOMAS J. POWELL Pick your own path. Which direction you choose doesn't matter; you can have any experience you want ...
THOMAS J. POWELL When you reset your mindset, you will be amazed that while nothing has changed, everything has chang...
THOMAS J. POWELL I love capitalism...only in the United States can a poor kid with everything going against him or he...
THOMAS J. POWELL The path to success begins when you ask what more I can give instead of what more I can take.
THOMAS J. POWELL The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, ...
THOMAS J. POWELL Successful people do what successful people do, and failures do what failures do; and if the failure...
THOMAS J. POWELL We have to make the change in the world for tomorrow, and we have to do it today. We can’t wait fo...
THOMAS J. POWELL I have learned that a smile is a better persuader than a fist, in the long run.
THOMAS J. POWELL Each person creates the life they live by choosing the words they speak.
THOMAS J. POWELL These are extremely trying times for our country. The recovery is going to be led by us via our priv...
THOMAS J. POWELL To be a beautiful person, fill your life with other beautiful people, places and things.
THOMAS J. POWELL Although positive thoughts and affirmations create results, none of them matter without what matters...
THOMAS J. POWELL This recession should have been a major wake-up call for all businesses, but those institutions deem...
THOMAS J. POWELL You can look anyone in the eye when you can face yourself in the mirror.
THOMAS J. POWELL Education does not end at any point in our lives; it is an ongoing journey to be carried with us eve...
THOMAS J. POWELL The Capital river is frozen, but we can unthaw it. Bring private capital together with private enter...
THOMAS J. POWELL When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
J. ENOCH POWELL Life itself is a matter of salesmanship.
THOMAS J. WATSON Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and sl...
THOMAS J. WATSON Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
THOMAS J. WATSON It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But afte...
THOMAS J. WATSON All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and ...
THOMAS J. PETERS The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and sym...
THOMAS J. PETERS Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate ...
THOMAS J. WATSON The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
THOMAS J. WATSON Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself...
THOMAS J. WATSON THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
THOMAS J. WATSON Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journ...
THOMAS J. PETERS Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in ...
THOMAS J. PETERS You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
THOMAS J. WATSON You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tiding...
THOMAS J. WATSON The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and e...
THOMAS J. PETERS The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
THOMAS J. PETERS Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to som...
THOMAS J. WATSON If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
THOMAS J. PETERS A manager is an assistant to his men.
THOMAS J. WATSON Good managers have a bias for action.
THOMAS J. PETERS I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
THOMAS J. WATSON Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.
THOMAS J. PETERS Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy....
THOMAS J. WATSON For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves ...
THOMAS J. COTTLE Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
THOMAS J. PETERS Celebrate what you want to see more of.
THOMAS J. PETERS If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go o...
THOMAS J. WATSON If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-...
THOMAS J. WATSON Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.
THOMAS J. PETERS Train everyone lavishly, you can't overspend on training.
THOMAS J. PETERS We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails...
THOMAS J. PETERS Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his he...
THOMAS J. WATSON Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
THOMAS J. WATSON If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
THOMAS J. PETERS Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over th...
THOMAS J. WATSON Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
THOMAS J. WATSON Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lea...
THOMAS J. WATSON Treat each case as an individual case, and give every man an opportunity to earn just as much money ...
THOMAS J. WATSON If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just...
THOMAS J. WATSON The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.
THOMAS J. WATSON Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever your...
THOMAS J. WATSON You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good ti...
THOMAS J. WATSON Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to...
THOMAS J. WATSON Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
THOMAS J. WATSON The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
THOMAS J. WATSON Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primar...
THOMAS J. WATSON To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
THOMAS J. WATSON All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...
THOMAS J. WATSON Good design is good business.
THOMAS J. WATSON Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some...
THOMAS J. WATSON If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember th...
THOMAS J. WATSON You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all...
THOMAS J. WATSON The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy t...
THOMAS J. WATSON Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $6...
THOMAS J. WATSON Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put hi...
THOMAS J. WATSON If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
THOMAS J. WATSON Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. ...
THOMAS J. WATSON There are about 300,000 neighborhoods in the United States, and more than half of them have at least...
THOMAS J. STANLEY Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It&...
THOMAS J. STANLEY The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roa...
THOMAS J. STANLEY There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordin...
THOMAS J. STANLEY Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.
THOMAS J. STANLEY Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teache...
THOMAS J. STANLEY Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivat...
THOMAS J. STANLEY Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time ...
THOMAS J. JACKSON Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
THOMAS J. PETERS Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of ...
THOMAS J. WATSON The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to de...
THOMAS J. WATSON Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them...
THOMAS J. WATSON All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is ...
THOMAS J. WATSON If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brill...
THOMAS J. STANLEY I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getti...
THOMAS J. SARGENT Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate ...
THOMAS J. WATSON The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth...
THOMAS J. JACKSON Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. ...
THOMAS J. WATSON The only thing I know for sure about every living thing is one day they will die , risk everything a...
THOMAS J BULGER Many highly succsessful people have survived significant downgrading by authority figures.
THOMAS J STANLEY Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
THOMAS J. PETERS There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejecti...
THOMAS J. SARGENT In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa...
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages
THOMAS J. WATSON, SR. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. ...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly exceed the...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is ...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lea...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
COLIN POWELL My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight o...
COLIN POWELL Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as...
LUCY POWELL I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
NATE POWELL Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
NATE POWELL Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full...
NATE POWELL There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay ...
NATE POWELL My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ...
NATE POWELL We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l...
NATE POWELL The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b...
NATE POWELL There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own...
NATE POWELL Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fanta...
NATE POWELL I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this w...
NATE POWELL I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway,...
NATE POWELL I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carr...
NATE POWELL The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', &#...
NATE POWELL As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between...
NATE POWELL My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr...
NATE POWELL The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot ...
NATE POWELL I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, w...
COLIN POWELL In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for...
LUCY POWELL The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straig...
DAWN POWELL No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far...
EDGAR POWELL I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a w...
COLIN POWELL The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
JOHN POWELL The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
ENOCH POWELL The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...
COLIN POWELL Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vi...
COLIN POWELL We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this count...
COLIN POWELL Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard...
COLIN POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
POWELL CLAYTON Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL The BBG may want to start numerous new broadcast services, or revive VOA (Voice of America) services...
ADAM POWELL Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
ADAM POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
ADAM POWELL Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
ADAM POWELL Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, th...
ADAM POWELL Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
ROBERT POWELL Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
JOHN POWELL Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL Self-love seems so often unrequited.
ANTHONY POWELL But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...
ANTHONY POWELL Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process i...
ANTHONY POWELL Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take...
E.P. POWELL He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL Communication works for those who work at it.
JOHN POWELL By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan...
WILLIAM POWELL Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL