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You cannot be a success in any business without believing that it is the greatest business in the world... You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Thomas Watson

1981

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Success in business Building a business

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1981

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Thomas Watson

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Watson, Thomas. Quoted in IBM: Colossus in Transition, written by Robert Sobel. Truman Talley Books, 1981.

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