William Feather
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.Collection: Home
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.Collection: Inspirational
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.Collection: Compliment
Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.Collection: Men
The way to get ahead is to start now.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Real
Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.Collection: Inspirational
Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.Collection: Two
Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.Collection: Simple
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.Collection: Perseverance
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.Collection: Change
It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.Collection: Real
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.Collection: Flattery
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.Collection: Achievement
Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.Collection: Jobs
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Lines
[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.Collection: Education
Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.Collection: Dumb
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.Collection: Life
I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.Collection: Jobs
It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.Collection: Nature
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.Collection: Pay
Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.Collection: Thinking
Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.Collection: Loneliness
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.Collection: Experience
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.Collection: Success
The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.Collection: Thrill
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.Collection: Law
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Baseball
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.Collection: Girl
Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's workCollection: Art
When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?Collection: Cutting
Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.Collection: Mistake
Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.Collection: Men
Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.Collection: Girl
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.Collection: Money
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.Collection: Jobs
In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.Collection: Education
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.Collection: Silly
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.Collection: Hard Times
Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.Collection: Desire
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.Collection: Baseball
Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.Collection: Patience
The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.Collection: Determination
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.Collection: Jobs
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.Collection: Writing
An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.Collection: Humor