William Feather Quotes - Page 6

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

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

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

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

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

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

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

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

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

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

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

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.

[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.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

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.

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

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

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.

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.

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.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

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