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I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. — Hope Solo
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me… — Bruce Springsteen
I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a… — Patti Stanger
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily… — James Surowiecki
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were… — James Surowiecki
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos.… — Patrick Swayze
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. — Jonathan Swift
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. — Torquato Tasso
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. — Tecumseh
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in… — John Tesh
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or… — William Makepeace Thackeray
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. — Anthony Trollope
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. — Ted Turner
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but… — Mike Tyson
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. — Mae West
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. — Richard Whately
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. — Walt Whitman
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a… — John Greenleaf Whittier
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and… — Woodrow Wilson
As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth… — Jane Austen

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