William Feather Quotes (80 Quotes)

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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.

An education isn't how much you've 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 know.

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

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

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

It's often a good idea to let the other fellow believe he is running things whether he is or not.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

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

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Few of us get anything without working for it.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard.

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

Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

A person or business without friends is insolvent.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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

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

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

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.

No man is a failure who enjoys life.

The only thrill worth while is the one that comes from making something out of yourself

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

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

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.

Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do.

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