William Feather Quotes

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

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.

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.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.