William Feather

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

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

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

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

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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.

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.

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

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 best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.