Top 100 William Feather Quotes
#1. If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
William Feather
#2. Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it ...
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#3. Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
William Feather
#4. 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.
William Feather
#6. He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
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#7. One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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#8. Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
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#9. Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
William Feather
#10. A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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#11. Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
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#12. Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
William Feather
#13. Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
William Feather
#15. Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
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#16. 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.
William Feather
#17. Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
William Feather
#18. 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.
William Feather
#19. It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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#20. The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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#21. Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
#22. When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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#23. Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
#24. All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.
William Feather
#25. 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.
William Feather
#26. 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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#27. Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.
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#28. Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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#31. Life isn't but a feather floating in the wind. One second it's in your grasp, next second, it's floating high, wondering what is to come.
William Shakespeare
#32. Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
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#33. The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
William Feather
#34. Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
William Feather
#35. This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
William Shakespeare
#36. Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
William Feather
#37. Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
William Feather
#38. Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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#40. The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
William Feather
#41. A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
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#42. 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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#43. Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
William Feather
#44. We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
William Feather
#45. 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.
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#47. No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
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#48. Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
#49. I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.
William Feather
#51. What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,
what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Douglas William Jerrold
#52. We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
#53. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
#54. Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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#55. To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
William Feather
#56. If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
William Feather
#57. The primary asset of any business is its organization.
William Feather
#58. Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
William Feather
#59. If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
William Feather
#60. Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.
William Feather
#61. Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
William Feather
#62. The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather
#63. An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
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#65. 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.
William Feather
#66. 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.
William Feather
#68. Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
William Feather
#69. It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
William Feather
#71. When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?
William Feather
#73. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
#74. 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.
William Feather
#75. 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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#77. The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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#78. Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
William Feather
#79. Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather
#80. The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
William Feather
#81. Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
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#82. Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
William Feather
#83. A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
#84. A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather
#85. Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
William Feather
#86. Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
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#88. If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather
#89. Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
William Feather
#90. Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.
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#91. Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work
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#92. An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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#93. 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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#94. A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
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#95. Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
William Feather
#96. 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.
William Feather
#97. Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
William Feather
#98. Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees.
William Johnson Cory
#100. 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.
William Feather
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