One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
WILLIAM FEATHERAny 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.
More William Feather Quotes
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Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.
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He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
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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.
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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.
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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
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If people really liked to work, we’d still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
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A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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