William Feather Men Quotations

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

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.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

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.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

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.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

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

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

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

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

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 a loafer and ineffective.

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.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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

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 for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

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

The right man can make a good job out of any job.