“Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.”
“Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don’t finish life as a little clerk.”
“Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
“I don’t want to get married, and I don’t want to work after I’m 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.”
“Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.”
“Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.”
“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”
“If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.”
“Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.”
“Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.”
“Fortune, that favors fools.”
“He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.”
“The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark – without charging anyone with a crime.”
“For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
“The truth is, the ‘Fortune’ 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.”
“Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.”
“I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.”
“I didn’t want to be a ‘Fortune’ writer who was constrained in any way.”
“We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.”
“Action makes more fortune than caution.”
“I play Texas Hold’em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.”
“My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.”
“Restaurants with small courses that give the customer choices, and that don’t obligate them to spend a fortune, are going to do very well.”
“There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.”
“I couldn’t lie to get myself fame and fortune.”
“Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real.”
“I’ve had an awful lot of good fortune.”
“I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.”
“I was not driven by fame and fortune.”
“Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.”
“Fortune favors the audacious.”
“For nearly eight decades, I’ve had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.”
“I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t yet know.”
“Mexico’s making a fortune off the United States.”
“Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it’s costing the country a fortune.”
“I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.”
“If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.”
“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.”
“I think, because I’ve been working for a while, I’ve been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.”
“Happiness isn’t a fortune in a cookie. It’s deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.”
“Fortune befriends the bold.”
“Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.”
“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.”
“I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.”
“The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.”
“Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.”
“Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.”
“I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.”
“Don’t be surprised at Fortune’s turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.”
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
“Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.”
“Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.”
“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”
“I have the good fortune of working with two brothers who are very accomplished, incredibly smart, and very capable.”
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
“The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.”
“The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.”
“We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.”
“I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.”
“The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.”
“I’ve had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.”
“I’ve made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.”
“Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.”
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
“Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.”
“Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left.”
“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.”
“Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.”
“I never pay a fortune for clothes.”
“I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.”
“If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.”
“For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.”
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
“The result showed that fortune helps the brave.”
“I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.”
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”
“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”
“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
“Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.”
“Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I’d been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.”
“I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”
“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
“Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.”
“Fortune’s wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.”
“Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.”
“I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.”
“The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.”
“No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.”
“My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.”
“A thing hard to track is Fortune.”
“I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career… I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.”
“Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I’m not sure I would have had the fortune that I’ve had.”
“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
“How many of the ‘Fortune’ 500 are hacked? 500.”
“The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn’t work anymore – they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks’ CDs are getting chewed up.”
“We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.”
“My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.”
“The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.”
“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
“It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
“How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!”
“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
“Sometimes when you gamble, you get up from the table with a fortune.”
“I’ve had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.”
“The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can… become very onerous indeed.”
“Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.”
“When I did ‘Bremner, Bird and Fortune’ I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.”
“I’ve had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.”
“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
“If I wasn’t an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.”
“I can’t predict the future, nor will I. I’m not a fortune teller.”
“Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
“I don’t need to make a fortune, I need to survive.”
“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.”
“There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.”
“Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.”
“I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.”
“The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.”
“Fortune favors the brave.”
“It is we that are blind, not fortune.”
“A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”
“In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.”
“Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.”
“There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.”
“Fortune is either with you or it’s not.”
“It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.”
“Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.”
“I’m not sure whether it’s good fortune or bad, but I’ve died many times on screen.”
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
“Fortune favours the bold.”
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
“It’s O.K. to accept good fortune.”
“Science fiction writers aren’t fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.”
“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.”
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.”
“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.”
“I’ve had ample contact with lawyers, and I’m convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.”
“Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.”
“Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.”
“I don’t think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.”
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