Quote

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

William Feather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Feather
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: August 25
Died: 1981
Died: January 7
Author
Writer
Jamestown
New York
Wise
Knowing
Littles
Quota
Little
Distinctly
Great
Joys
Long
Seeks
Men
Limited
Life
Joy

More quotes by William Feather

Image
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
William Feather
Image
BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.
William Feather
Image
It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
William Feather
Image
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.
William Feather
Image
The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
William Feather
Image
Pure and simple, any person who is enjoying life is a success.
William Feather
Image
The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
William Feather
Image
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
William Feather
Image
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
William Feather
Image
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
William Feather
Image
Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
William Feather
Image
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
William Feather
Image
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
William Feather
Image
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
William Feather
Image
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
William Feather
Image
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
William Feather
Image
Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.
William Feather
Image
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
William Feather
Image
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
William Feather
Image
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
William Feather