William Feather Quotes
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Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.
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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
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Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.
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Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.
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Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
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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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Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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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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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.
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Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
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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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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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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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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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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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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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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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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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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
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Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.