William Feather Quotes

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

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; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

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

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

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.

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

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

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

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

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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

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

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.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

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