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William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
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Work is the best method devised for killing time.
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If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
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If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
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Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. 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.
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Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
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Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise if you fail, they'll forget it.
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He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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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.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
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