William Feather Quotes
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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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Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
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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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To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
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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 a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
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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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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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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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It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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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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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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Work is the best method devised for killing time.
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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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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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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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Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.
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A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
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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.