Quotes By William Feather

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

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

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

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

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

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.

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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.

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.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

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.

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.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

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.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

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

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.

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.