William Feather Quotations | Page 2

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

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

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

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

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

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

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

The primary asset of any business is its organization.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

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

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

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

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

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

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

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.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

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

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

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

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.

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

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

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

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

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

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

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.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

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

The way to get ahead is to start now.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

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

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

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

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

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.

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

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

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.

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