William Feather's Quotes

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.

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

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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.

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

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

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

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

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

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.

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.

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.