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The real disgrace of poverty is not in owning to the fact But in declining to struggle against it. Thucydides		Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
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About William A. Feather

William A. Feather

William A. Feather

William A. Feather (August 25, 1889 - January 7, 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 worked as a reporter for the Cleveland Press . In 1916, he established the William Feather Magazine.

Feather is quoted extensively in quotation books and websites.

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A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

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

Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

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

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

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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