William Feather Quotes

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

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

A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument.

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

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I like business because it is competitive. Business keeps books. The books are the score cards. Profit is the measure of accomplishment, not the ideal measure, but the most practical that can be devised. I like business because it compels earnestness. Amateurs and dilettantes are shoved out. Once in you must fight for survival or be carried to the sidelines. I like business because it requires courage. Cowards do not get to first base. I like business because It demands faith. Faith in human nature, faith in one's self, faith in one's customers, faith in one's employees. I like business because it is the essence of life. Dreams are good, poetical fancies are good, but bread must be baked today, trains must move today, bills must be collected today, payrolls met today. Business feeds, clothes and houses man. I like business because it rewards deeds and not words. I like business because it does not neglect today's task while it is thinking about tomorrow. I like business because it undertakes to please, not to reform. I like business because it is orderly. I like business because it is bold in enterprise. I like business because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding the hypocrisy and sentimentality of the unselfish attitude. I like business because it is promptly penalized for its mistakes, shiftlessness and inefficiency. I like business because its philosophy works. I like business because each day is a fresh, adventure.

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