William A. Feather (1889–1981) was an American publisher and author, based in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Jamestown, New York, Feather relocated with his family to Cleveland in 1903. After earning a degree from Western Reserve University in 1910, he began working as a reporter for the Cleveland Press. In 1916, he established the William Feather Magazine. In addition to writing for and publishing that magazine, and writing for other magazines as H.L. Mencken’s The American Mercury, he ran a successful printing business, and wrote several books.
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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.
—William Feather
It’s not the increasing competition; it’s going back to real work that most of us complain about.
—William Feather
Topics: Work
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
Topics: Kindness
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
—William Feather
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
—William Feather
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
—William Feather
Topics: Friendship
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
—William Feather
Topics: Ambition
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
—William Feather
Topics: People, Happiness
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
—William Feather
Topics: Life
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction.
—William Feather
Topics: Mentoring, Leadership
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
—William Feather
Topics: Prayer
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don’t know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.
—William Feather
Topics: Inaction, Progress, Procrastination, Getting Going
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
—William Feather
Topics: Change
We don’t need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
—William Feather
Topics: Ideas
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
—William Feather
A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.
—William Feather
Topics: Money
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