William feather quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

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

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

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

Few of us get anything without working for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.

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.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

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

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

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

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

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

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

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

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

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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.

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

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

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

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

The primary asset of any business is its organization.

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

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.

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

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

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

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.