Top 140 William Feather Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.”

— William Feather

52. “Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.”

— William Feather

53. “If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.”

— William Feather

54. “Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.”

— William Feather

55. “Work is the best method devised for killing time.”

— William Feather

56. “Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.”

— William Feather

57. “Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.”

— William Feather

58. “Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.”

— William Feather

59. “Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.”

— William Feather

60. “If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.”

— William Feather

61. “Few of us get anything without working for it.”

— William Feather

62. “The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you’re not.”

— William Feather

63. “The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.”

— William Feather

64. “The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.”

— William Feather

65. “Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

67. “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

68. “The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.”

— William Feather

69. “Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.”

— William Feather

70. “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.”

— William Feather

71. “Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.”

— William Feather

72. “In many lines of wok, it isn’t how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.”

— William Feather

73. “A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.”

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

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

— William Feather

77. “If you don’t take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you’re not an executive.”

— William Feather

78. “When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.”

— William Feather

79. “Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we’ve got.”

— William Feather

80. “The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.”

— William Feather

81. “Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.”

— William Feather

82. “The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.”

— William Feather

83. “It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.”

— William Feather

84. “To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.”

— William Feather

85. “Loneliness is something you can’t walk away from.”

— William Feather

86. “In education it 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 you get.”

— William Feather

87. “The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.”

— William Feather

88. “An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.”

— William Feather

89. “Giving advice isn’t as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.”

— William Feather

90. “We all know that the nation can’t divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that’s how we get ahead.”

— William Feather

91. “Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.”

— William Feather

92. “Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.”

— William Feather

93. “Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.”

— William Feather

94. “We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.”

— William Feather

95. “Improvement of one’s economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.”

— William Feather

96. “One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.”

— William Feather

97. “Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.”

— William Feather

98. “A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.”

— William Feather

99. “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.”

— William Feather

100. “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.”

— William Feather