William Feather Quotes

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.

I tend to not have to handle things that are probably gonna end up being irrelevant, that aren't gonna have much to do with the film. I have probably a better understanding of really what does matter, when to pick my battles and when to kind of let them go.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.