Quotes By William Feather

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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.

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.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.