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“In closing a deal, what you don’t say may be more helpful than what you do say.”

William Feather

The Business of Life (1949)

Help

“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.”

William Feather

As quoted in Telephony, Vol. 150 (1956), p. 23 http://books.google.com/books?id=Wm0jAQAAMAAJ&q=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&dq=%22being+able+to+differentiate+between+what+you+do+know%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qYJOU9dAzoXRAYumgcAP&ved=0CMsCEOgBMDQ; the first two sentences of this statement began to be attributed to Anatole France in the 1990s, but without any citations of sources.

Education , Memory

“The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them.”

William Feather

Featherisms (2008)

“If you do not have the capacity for happiness with a little money, great wealth will not bring it to you.”

William Feather

The Business of Life (1949)

Money , Wealth , Happiness

“When the gardeners are praying for rain, the picnickers are praying for sunshine. So what is the poor Lord to do?”

William Feather

Featherisms (2008)