William Feather Quotes

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

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

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

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

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

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

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.

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

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 primary asset of any business is its organization.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

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

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

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.

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

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.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

I have won every argument I ever had with myself.

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

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.

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

Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.