Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

William Feather

American Publisher and Author

"I like business because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding the hypocrisy and sentimentality of the unselfish attitude."

"I like business because it is orderly."

"I like business because it is promptly penalized for its mistakes, shiftlessness and inefficiency."

"I like business because it is the essence of life. Dreams are good, poetical fancies are good, but bread must be baked today, trains must move today, bills must be collected today, payrolls met today. Business feeds, clothes and houses man."

"I like business because it requires courage. Cowards do not get to first base."

"I like business because it rewards deeds and not words."

"I like business because it undertakes to please, not to reform."

"I like business because its philosophy works."

"If you do not have the capacity for happiness with a little money, great wealth will not bring it to you."

"In closing a deal, what you don?t say may be more helpful than what you do say."

"Let?s not have any more wars to end all war."

"Many of us are dull, but not as dull as the grandchildren think we are."

"Many people are thwarted by excessive ambition. They want a hundred thousand dollars but are unwilling to save a hundred dollars. They want a big house, but do not accumulate enough money to make the down payment on on a small house. They want to write a book, but will not learn to write a letter. Most men become successful and famous, not through ambition, but through ability and character."

"Nothing makes us so sleepy as the bell of our alarm clock."

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."

"The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth."

"The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them."

"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor."

"The trouble with a man who takes his time is that he takes your time, too."

"The way to get things done is to have a good assistant."

"Uneasy lies the head that ignores a telephone call late at night."

"When the gardeners are praying for rain, the picnickers are praying for sunshine. So what is the poor Lord to do?"