William Feather

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

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

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

“Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.”

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

“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.”

“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”

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

“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.”

“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.”

“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 pro...”

“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”

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