William Feather Quotes

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

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

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

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

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.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

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.

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

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

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

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

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

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

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

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.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

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.

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

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

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

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

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

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

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

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

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

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

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

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

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