Life begins at 40—but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
—William Feather
Topics: Aging, Age
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.
—William Feather
Except for excess decoration, excess commercialism, excess editorializing, excess caroling, excess bibbling, and excess cheer, I heartily approve of the Christmas spirit.
—William Feather
Topics: Holidays
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
—William Feather
Topics: Lies, Deception/Lying, Lying
Invest in yourself-if you have confidence in yourself.
—William Feather
Topics: Self-Discovery
It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
—William Feather
Topics: Self-Discovery
No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
—William Feather
A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
—William Feather
Topics: Money
Successful salesman, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
—William Feather
Topics: Patience
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles
—William Feather
Topics: Trouble
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
—William Feather
Topics: Ability
Management is the art of getting three men to do three men’s work.
—William Feather
Topics: Management
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
—William Feather
Topics: Happiness
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
—William Feather
Topics: Success
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
—William Feather
Topics: Faults
Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.
—William Feather
Topics: Pleasure
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
—William Feather
Topics: Ambition
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.
—William Feather
Topics: Achievements
One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.
—William Feather
Topics: Help
Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.
—William Feather
Topics: Language
Loneliness is something you can’t walk away from.
—William Feather
Topics: Loneliness
In many lines of work, it isn’t how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.
—William Feather
Topics: Decisions
An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
—William Feather
Topics: Humor
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
—William Feather
Topics: Kindness, Help
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
—William Feather
Topics: Temper
Because his wife is of such a delicate nature, a man avoids using certain words all through his married life, and then one day he picks up a bestseller she is reading and finds five of the words in the first chapter.
—William Feather
Topics: Words
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
—William Feather
Topics: Business
Unless a man has been kicked around a little, you can’t really depend upon him to amount to anything.
—William Feather
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
—William Feather
Topics: Wealth
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.
—William Feather
Topics: Leadership
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- C. P. Scott British Journalist, Editor
- M. Scott Peck American Psychiatrist
- Hugh Prather American Christian Author
- Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) American Columnist
- James Freeman Clarke American Unitarian Clergyman
- Diana Trilling American Literary Critic
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