William Feather Quotes
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We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
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Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.
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Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
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Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
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A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.
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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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Few of us get anything without working for it.
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
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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.
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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.
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In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
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The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.
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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.
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We all find time to do what we really want to do.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability