Quotes from William Feather

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

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

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

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

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

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.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

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.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

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

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

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

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

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

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

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.