William Feather

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Business is like a wheelbarrow-it stands still until someone pushes it.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

— William Feather