William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

— 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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

— William Feather

He was known to some people as a writer. In his writings he espoused thrift, industry, promptness, perseverance, and dependability. … As far as was possible, the subject of this sketch practiced what he preached. Some of his enemies point to this trait as his foremost weakness.

— William Feather

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

— William Feather

Anyone who can think clearly can write clearly. But neither is easy.

— William Feather

The way to get things done is to have a good assistant.

— William Feather

Every job has two salaries. One is the pay you get. The other is the mental satisfaction you derive from working for the company.

— William Feather

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

— William Feather

If you do not have the capacity for happiness with a little money, great wealth will not bring it to you.

— William Feather

Many people are thwarted by excessive ambition. They want a hundred thousand dollars but are unwilling to save a hundred dollars. They want a big house, but do not accumulate enough money to make the down payment on on a small house. They want to write a book, but will not learn to write a letter. Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character.

— William Feather

Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night.

— William Feather

In closing a deal, what you don’t say may be more helpful than what you do say.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

When the gardeners are praying for rain, the picnickers are praying for sunshine. So what is the poor Lord to do?

— William Feather

A good time is seldom had by all.

— William Feather

A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.

— William Feather

Many of us are dull, but not as dull as the grandchildren think we are.

— William Feather

The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth.

— William Feather

The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them.

— William Feather

Experts never seem to tell us what we’re up against until we’re up against it.

— William Feather

Let’s not have any more wars to end all war.

— William Feather

A tinfoil wrapper doesn’t make a bum cigar taste any better.

— William Feather

The trouble with a man who takes his time is that he takes your time, too.

— William Feather

A clear conscience doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t any conscience.

— William Feather

Nothing makes us so sleepy as the bell of our alarm clock.

— William Feather

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

— William Feather

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

— William Feather

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.

— William Feather

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

— William Feather

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

— William Feather

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

— William Feather