Fortune Quotes · Page 53

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the…

— David Antin

In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly

— Frank Schilling

You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

— Daniel Bryan

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

— John C. Bogle

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter…

— Ayn Rand

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

— William Shakespeare

You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals…

— Bryan Robson

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by…

— Anonymous

the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ...…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand…

— Chris Matthews

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to…

— Shari Arison

A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm.…

— Anonymous

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties…

— John Marshall

Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten.…

— Jonathan Tropper

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come…

— Herbert Hoover

What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company…

— Donald Trump

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and…

— David O. Russell

There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to…

— Lissie

Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his…

— Thomas Traherne

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or…

— Francis Bacon

Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

— Daniel Boone

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook…

— Betty White

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

— Angus Deaton

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of…

— Rufus Choate

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the…

— Sophocles

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune…

— Arthur Rubinstein

“Fortune means nothing. This time we must not fail." Fortune? I like money.”

— Julie Reece

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

— Jerry Della Femina

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

— Erin Morgenstern

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he…

— Jane Austen

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

— Livy

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

— Max Ehrmann