“Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one. — Junior Johnson Copy Share Image
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
A beautiful face in youth is the result of fortune; a beautiful face in old age is earned by kindness and wisdom — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
I wake up pinching myself with the things that I've had the good fortune to be able to do. If it all… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune. — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three… — James Rebhorn Copy Share Image
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist,… — William H. Gates, Sr Copy Share Image
Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
