William Feather Quotes

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success,

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it ...

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.