Quotes By William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

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.

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

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

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

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

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.

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

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

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

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

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

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

He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

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.

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