William Feather Quotes

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The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them.

William Feather
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

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I like business because it compels earnestness. Amateurs and dilettantes are shoved out. Once in you must fight for survival or be carried to the sidelines.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. 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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The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

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I like business because it is competitive. Business keeps books. The books are the score cards. Profit is the measure of accomplishment, not the ideal measure, but the most practical that can be devised.

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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

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Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

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The way to get things done is to have a good assistant.

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In closing a deal, what you don't say may be more helpful than what you do say.

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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

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The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

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When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

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I like business because it is the essence of life. Dreams are good, poetical fancies are good, but bread must be baked today, trains must move today, bills must be collected today, payrolls met today. Business feeds, clothes and houses man.

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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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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

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If you do not have the capacity for happiness with a little money, great wealth will not bring it to you.

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Nothing makes us so sleepy as the bell of our alarm clock.

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Life begins at 40—but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell the same story to the same person three or four times.

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I like business because It demands faith. Faith in human nature, faith in one's self, faith in one's customers, faith in one's employees.

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Many people are thwarted by excessive ambition. They want a hundred thousand dollars but are unwilling to save a hundred dollars. They want a big house, but do not accumulate enough money to make the down payment on on a small house. They want to write a book, but will not learn to write a letter. Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.

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I like business because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding the hypocrisy and sentimentality of the unselfish attitude.

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