William Feather Quotes
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work
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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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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
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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.
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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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Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
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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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He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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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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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
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It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
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Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.