William Feather Quotes

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Every job has two salaries. One is the pay you get. The other is the mental satisfaction you derive from working for the company.

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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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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

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Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night.

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The trouble with a man who takes his time is that he takes your time, too.

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When the gardeners are praying for rain, the picnickers are praying for sunshine. So what is the poor Lord to do?

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Experts never seem to tell us what we're up against until we're up against it.

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Anyone who can think clearly can write clearly. But neither is easy.

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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.

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I like business because it undertakes to please, not to reform.

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

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Many of us are dull, but not as dull as the grandchildren think we are.

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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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A tinfoil wrapper doesn't make a bum cigar taste any better.

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A clear conscience doesn't mean anything if you haven't any conscience.

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He was known to some people as a writer. In his writings he espoused thrift, industry, promptness, perseverance, and dependability. … As far as was possible, the subject of this sketch practiced what he preached. Some of his enemies point to this trait as his foremost weakness.

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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

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The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth.

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Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

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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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When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

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Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

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I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.

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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

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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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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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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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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

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