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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.
William Feather
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William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
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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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Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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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.
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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.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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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.
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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.
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We all find time to do what we really want to do.
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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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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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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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