Top 151 Quotes & Sayings by William Feather - Page 3

[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.

We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

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

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

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

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

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

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

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.