William Feather Quotes
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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
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The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
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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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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
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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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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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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.
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Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
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Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
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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.
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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.
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Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
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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.
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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
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The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
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Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
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Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.
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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.
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Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.