A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
WILLIAM FEATHERWhen ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
More William Feather Quotes
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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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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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Few of us get anything without working for it.
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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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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.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
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Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
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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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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
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When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
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If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.
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If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.
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The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
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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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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
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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.
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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
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