William Feather famous quotes

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

#Life #Happiness #Happy

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

#People #Kind

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

#Discipline #World

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

#Positive #Inspiration #Intelligent

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.
-- William Feather

#Hard Work #Men #Ideas

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

#Persistence #Enthusiasm #Hot

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

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

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

#Happiness #Struggle #Inner Peace

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

#Life #Happiness #Adventure

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.
-- William Feather

#Life #Long #May

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
-- William Feather

#Positive #Fun #Inspirational Life

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

#Leadership #Jobs #Mean

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

#Men #Deny #Ability

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

#Lunch #Indecisive #Culinary

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
-- William Feather

#Money #Business #Buying

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
-- William Feather

#Good Morning #Sarcastic #Sarcasm

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

#Self Confidence #People #Delay

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

#Bank Accounts #Accounts

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
-- William Feather

#Funny #Thinking #Finance

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

#Jobs #Work #Forget

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
-- William Feather

#Money #Ideas #Flow

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

#Book #Good Friend #Leaving

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

#Betrayal #Good Luck #Luck

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.
-- William Feather

#Wise #Age #Fables

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

#Inspiration #Men #Contact

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

#Gymnastics #Nine #Done

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

#People #Busy #Too Busy

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

#Silly #Extravagance #Wealth

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
-- William Feather

#Intelligence #Brain #Important

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

#Mistake #Selfish #Essence

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

#Teamwork #Definitions #Honest

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

#Jobs #Work #Men

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

#Essence #Cooperation #Getting Along

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

#Blow #People #Forgiving

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

#Two #Enthusiasm #Individual

We all find time to do what we really want to do.
-- William Feather

#Wisdom #Want

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

#Money #Community #Used

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.
-- William Feather

#Real #Men #Thinking

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

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

#Work #Killing #Time To Kill

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

#Pleasure #Interfere

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

#Perseverance #Determination #Way

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

#Believe #Thinking #Believe In Yourself

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

#Friendship #Way #Inexpensive

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

#Money #Rewards #Energy

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

#Dog #Littles #May

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

#Men #Ministers

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
-- William Feather

#Hard Work #Quality #Fundamentals

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.
-- William Feather

#Wise #Witty #Philosophy

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

#Time #Routine #Way

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

#Memories #Learning #Knowing

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

#Positive #Rain #Learning

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

#Mom #Mother #Children

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

#Wedding #Police #Trouble

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

#Details #Bothered #Persons

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

#Life #Thank You #Appreciation

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

#Jobs #Ambition #Hands

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

#Humble #Individuality #Doe

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
-- William Feather

#Book #Healing #Mind

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

#People #Trying #Individual

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.
-- William Feather

#Teaching #Learning #Knowing

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.
-- William Feather

#Law #Victory #Wages

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
-- William Feather

#Wise #Men #Knowing

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

#Mistake #Men #Over Confident

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

#Men #Problem #Bigs

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

#Jobs #Men #Granted

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

#Men #Language #Spelling

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

#Baseball #Years #Organization

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

#Goodwill

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

#Men #Discipline #Fit

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

#Art #Men #Three

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

#Cutting #Looks #Doe

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

#Compliment #Complaints

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

#Simple #Enjoy Life #Life Is

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

#Thrill #Worthwhile

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

#Successful #Needs #Inexperience

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

#Lines #Wells

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

#Organization #Assets

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

#Problem

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

#Jobs #Work #Trying

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

#Argument

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

#Home #House #Guests

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

#Dumb #Enough #Reason

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
-- William Feather

#Change #Progress #Habit

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
-- William Feather

#Block #Progress #Temper

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

#Patience #Firsts

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

#Real #Work #Competition

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

#Desire #Prejudice #Vote

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

#Self #Rely On Yourself #Rely

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

#Motivational #Fun #Player

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

#Vitamins #Culinary #Dishes

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

#Jobs #Work #Men

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
-- William Feather

#Work #Men #Ladders

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

#Thinking #Firsts #Second Thoughts

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

#Girl #Sex #Intelligent

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
-- William Feather

#Deeds #Resolve

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

#Pay #Indifference #Penalties

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

#Jobs #Joy #Doe

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

#Baseball #Fun #Games

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

#Marriage #Husband #Thinking