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

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

— 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

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort

— William Feather

BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

— William Feather

It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

— William Feather

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to…

— William Feather

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the…

— 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

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