Zitat des Tages von William Feather:
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
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.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
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.
Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
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.
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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.
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
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.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.