Best 129 quotes of William Feather on MyQuotes

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

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

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

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

An education 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 once you get it.

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

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

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

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

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.

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

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

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

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

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

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.