William Feather Quotes

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

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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.

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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.

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

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.

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

Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.