WILLIAM FEATHER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

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.

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

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

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.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

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

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.

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.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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