William Feather Quotes

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

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

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

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

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

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

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

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

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

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

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.

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

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

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

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

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

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

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.

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

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

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

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

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

The way to get ahead is to start now.

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

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

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

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