Top 100 William Feather Quotes
#1. Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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#2. Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
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#3. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
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#9. Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
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#10. Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.
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#11. If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
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#12. Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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#13. If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
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#14. To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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#15. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
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#16. We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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#17. 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.
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#19. Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
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#20. We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
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#21. Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
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#22. A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
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#23. The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
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#24. An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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#25. Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work
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#26. Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.
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#27. If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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#29. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
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#30. Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
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#31. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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#32. A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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#33. Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
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#34. Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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#35. Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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#37. All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.
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#38. Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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#39. When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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#40. Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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#41. It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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#42. Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
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#45. If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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#46. Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
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#47. Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
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#48. A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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#52. Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it ...
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#54. Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
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#55. No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
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#57. We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
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#58. Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
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#59. A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
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#60. The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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#61. The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
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#62. Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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#63. Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
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#64. The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
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#65. Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
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#68. Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.
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#69. Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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#70. One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.
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#71. An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
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#72. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
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#73. A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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#74. The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
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#76. Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
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#77. After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
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#78. If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#81. The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
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#82. Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
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#83. One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
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#84. Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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#85. A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
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#86. Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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#88. Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
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#89. He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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#90. Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success,
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#91. Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.
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#94. 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.
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#95. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
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#96. A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
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#97. Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
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#98. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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#99. Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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#100. The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
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