Great Fortune Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
— John O. Brennan
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
— Seneca the Younger
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
— Seneca the Younger
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One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.
— Hugh Dalton
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Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or…
— James Kelman
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Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime
— Ben Mezrich
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No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
— Napoleon Hill
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When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some…
— B. C. Forbes
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It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
— George Friedman
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked…
— Napoleon Hill
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I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with…
— Benjamin Franklin
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
— Livy
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The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to…
— Philippa Gregory
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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
Who Wrote These Great Fortune Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Great Fortune Quotes as follows: