William Feather Quotes
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
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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.
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
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He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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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.
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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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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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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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
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Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
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Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
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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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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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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
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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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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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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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We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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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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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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Few of us get anything without working for it.