William Feather Quotes
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A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.
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We all find time to do what we really want to do.
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.
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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
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Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
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Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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Few of us get anything without working for it.
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[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
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Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.
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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
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Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.
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An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
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Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
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After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
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I have won every argument I ever had with myself.