“If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”
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Famous William Feather Quotes
“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.”
Source: The Business of Life
“I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.”
Source: The Business of Life
“All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”
“The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.”
“Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.”
“It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.”
“Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.”
“If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.”
“Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.”
“Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.”
“Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.”
“Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.”
“Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.”
“Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.”
Source: The Business of Life
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“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”
Source: The Business of Life
“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability”
“A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.”
“The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.”
“Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact”
“Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.”
Source: The Business of Life