William Feather
The right man can make a good job out of any job.Collection: Jobs
It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.Collection: Self
Work is the best method devised for killing time.Collection: Money
The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.Collection: Jobs
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.Collection: Eye
One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.Collection: Birthday
One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.Collection: Teamwork
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.Collection: Block
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.Collection: Motivational
No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.Collection: Humble
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.Collection: Baseball
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.Collection: Hard Work
All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.Collection: Food
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.Collection: Play
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.Collection: Business
Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.Collection: Important
If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.Collection: Success
Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.Collection: Discipline
Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contactCollection: Inspiration
A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.Collection: Leadership
BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.Collection: Bank Accounts
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.Collection: Life
Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.Collection: Motivational
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.Collection: Block
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.Collection: Leadership
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.Collection: Argument
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.Collection: Gymnastics
We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.Collection: Men
Brains aren't everything, but they're important.Collection: Brain
Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Men
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.Collection: Friendship
Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.Collection: People
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have abilityCollection: Ambition
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.Collection: Successful
None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.Collection: Goodwill
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.Collection: Time
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failureCollection: People
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.Collection: Persistence
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.Collection: Years
We all find time to do what we really want to do.Collection: Wisdom
Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.Collection: Happened
Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.Collection: Work
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.Collection: Essence
Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.Collection: Inspirational
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.Collection: Christian
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.Collection: People
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.Collection: Marriage
Whether it’s marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.Collection: Firsts