William Feather
American writer
| Date of Birth | : | 25 Aug, 1889 |
| Date of Death | : | 07 Jan, 1981 |
| Place of Birth | : | Jamestown, New York, United States |
| Profession | : | American Writer |
| Nationality | : | American |
William A. Feather was an American publisher and author, based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Born in Jamestown, New York, Feather moved with his family to Cleveland in 1903. After graduating from Western Reserve University in 1910, he began working as a reporter for the Cleveland Press. In 1916, he founded William Feather magazine. In addition to writing and publishing for that magazine, and H.L. In addition to writing for other magazines such as Mencken's The American Mercury, he ran a successful printing business and wrote several books.
His large printing business, William Feather Printers, produced catalogs, magazines, booklets, brochures and corporate annual reports. It moved from Cleveland to Oberlin, Ohio in 1982 after a labor dispute.
Book
- As we were saying (1921)
- Haystacks and Smokestacks (1923)
- Business Ideals and Follies (1927)
- The Age of New Purchase (1933)
- Let's Use the Grand Jury (1934)
- The Business of Life (1949) Simon & Schuster
Quotes
Total 42 Quotes
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
The way to get ahead is to start now.
