William Feather quotes:

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

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

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.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

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

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

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

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

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

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

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

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.

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

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

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

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

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

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

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

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

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

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.

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.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

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

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

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

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

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.

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

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

Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

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

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.

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

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

It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effor

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

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

Setting a good example for 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.

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

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

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

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

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

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

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

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.

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

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and its knowing how to use the information you get.

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

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

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

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

In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

In education it 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 you get.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

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

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

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

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

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.