Top 151 Quotes & Sayings by William Feather

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

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

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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

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

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.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

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.

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

Few of us get anything without working for it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

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

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

The way to get ahead is to start now.

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

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

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

An education 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 once you get it.

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

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.

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

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

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