Management is the art of getting three men to do three men’s work.
—William Feather
Topics: Management
Brains aren’t everything, but they’re important.
—William Feather
Topics: Intelligence
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
—William Feather
Topics: Faults
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
—William Feather
Topics: Temper
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
—William Feather
Topics: Laziness
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 and life are like a bank account-you can’t take out more than you put in.
—William Feather
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
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
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
—William Feather
Topics: Perseverance
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
—William Feather
Topics: Success
Invest in yourself-if you have confidence in yourself.
—William Feather
Topics: Self-Discovery
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.
—William Feather
Topics: The Present, Fate, Preparation
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
If at first you don’t succeed try hard work.
—William Feather
Topics: Success
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
—William Feather
Topics: America
He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
—William Feather
Topics: Challenges
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
—William Feather
Topics: Action
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
—William Feather
Topics: Goals
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
—William Feather
Topics: Joy
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
—William Feather
Topics: Lies, Lying, Deception/Lying
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.
—William Feather
Topics: Progress, Inaction, Getting Going, Procrastination
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
—William Feather
Topics: Secrets of Success, Decisions
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.
—William Feather
Topics: Realization, Realistic Expectations, Awareness, Expectations, Acceptance, Perfection
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
—William Feather
Topics: Happiness, Civilization
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
—William Feather
Topics: Risk
The primary asset of any business is its organization.
—William Feather
Topics: Organization
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
—William Feather
Topics: Action
One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.
—William Feather
Topics: Help
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
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