William Feather Quotes
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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
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Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
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I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.
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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.
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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.
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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
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Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
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It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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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.
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If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
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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.
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Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
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When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
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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.