William Feather Quotes
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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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Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
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Work is the best method devised for killing time.
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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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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Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.
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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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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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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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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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The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
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Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
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Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
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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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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work
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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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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
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The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.