William Feather Quotes
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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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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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Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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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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Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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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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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.
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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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It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
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Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
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Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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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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Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
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The right man can make a good job out of any job.
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.