William Feather Quotes
- Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
- Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
- Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
- The right man can make a good job out of any job.
- He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
- Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
- 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…
- Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is…
- An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
- Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
- The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
- Few of us get anything without working for it.
- Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....
- Work is the best method devised for killing time.
- Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work…
- An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
- A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
- Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
- 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…
- We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.