William Feather Quotes
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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 tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
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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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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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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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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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Few of us get anything without working for it.
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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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We all find time to do what we really want to do.
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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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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.
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No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
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A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
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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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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
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Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
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Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
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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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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.