William Feather Quotes & Sayings

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

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends. — William Feather

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

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

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else. — William Feather

Work is the best method devised for killing time. — William Feather

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

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. — William Feather

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

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. — William Feather

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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. — William Feather

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes. — William Feather

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them. — William Feather

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Few of us get anything without working for it. — William Feather

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

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. — William Feather

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. — William Feather

Wealth flows from energy and ideas. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details. — William Feather

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done. — William Feather

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. — William Feather

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

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. — William Feather

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

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

The primary asset of any business is its organization. — William Feather

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

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

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. — William Feather

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success. — William Feather

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

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

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity.. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. — William Feather

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. — William Feather

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

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. — William Feather

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

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well. — William Feather

I have won every argument I ever had with myself. — William Feather

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

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

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

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires. — William Feather

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

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought. — William Feather

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

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

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

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

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

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason. — William Feather

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