Quote

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.

William Feather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
Author
Writer
Jamestown
New York
Way
Waited
Would
Ahead
Progress
Year
Start
Known
Next
Years

More quotes by William Feather

Image
It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
William Feather
Image
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
Image
None of us can buy goodwill we must earn it.
William Feather
Image
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
William Feather
Image
Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.
William Feather
Image
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather
Image
Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
William Feather
Image
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
William Feather
Image
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
Image
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
Image
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
William Feather
Image
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
William Feather
Image
The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
William Feather
Image
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Image
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
Image
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather
Image
An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
William Feather
Image
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
William Feather
Image
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
Image
The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
William Feather