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“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”

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Thomas J. Watson

Thomas J. Watson was an outstanding business figure and one of the founders of IBM. He was born on February 17, 1874, and died on June 19, 1956. Watson is renowned for his visionary leadership and for transforming a small computing manufacturer into one of the world's largest information technology companies. more

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