Top 140 William Feather Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.”

— William Feather

102. “When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.”

— William Feather

103. “Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.”

— William Feather

104. “Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.”

— William Feather

105. “Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.”

— William Feather

106. “Brains aren’t everything, but they’re important.”

— William Feather

107. “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.”

— William Feather

108. “The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.”

— William Feather

109. “Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.”

— William Feather

110. “Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.”

— William Feather

111. “None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.”

— William Feather

112. “All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.”

— William Feather

113. “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

114. “Management is the art of getting three men to do three men’s work.”

— William Feather

115. “Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that’s widely distributed.”

— William Feather

116. “We don’t need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.”

— William Feather

117. “Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact.”

— William Feather

118. “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.”

— William Feather

119. “A baseball game is twice as much fun if you’re seeing it on the company’s time.”

— William Feather

120. “That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.”

— William Feather

121. “Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

123. “He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

125. “If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.”

— William Feather

126. “When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

130. “Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.”

— William Feather

131. “I have won every argument I ever had with myself.”

— William Feather

132. “Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.”

— William Feather

133. “A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she’s sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.”

— William Feather

134. “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.”

— William Feather

135. “Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

137. “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

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

140. “A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather