Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Feather

• A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
• An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
• An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
• Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
• Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
• Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
• No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
• 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.
• One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
• One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
• Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
• That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
• The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
• 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.
• 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.
• Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
• Women lie about their age men lie about their income.