Quotes About Fortune

I'm really fortunate that I get to work with amazing partners that thankfully want to work with me because of what I stand for.

All you can dream for is opportunity, and I've been very fortunate to have that over the years. That's all thanks to some great people.

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.

The one thing that I've always wanted to do with my work is to create value and that's something that I've been able to do with all the projects I've had the fortune to be a part of. It's the one thing that inspires me.

The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.

I was very lucky with 'The Sopranos.'

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

Know how to make a small fortune?" Sully asked Frank. "Take a large fortune and put it into educating a neurosurgeon who decides to quit and sell picnic supplies.

I'd listen to whatever songs were on the radio, not because I liked them, but because they were my tarot cards. If the songs were good, it would be a good day. If they were bad, I'd probably get a B on a quiz.

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

Ahmed, who regarded himself as an expert on the works and handwriting of Borges, had accepted the book because he was confident that sooner or later he'd find a buyer: a learned fool or a swindler, in either case, a snob. Maybe he would sell it for a fortune one day. Maybe not. And maybe one day Severina will tear out some of her hair and scatter it over my body.

El destino es siempre desmedido: castiga un instante de distracción, el azar de tomar a la izquierda y no a la derecha, a veces con la muerte. BORGES citado por Bioy

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.

When lovers are in love, they don't diminish. When wanderers wander, they do not diminish. The world lays itself out beautiful before them; a rich tapestry to explore; with love in abundance. But for this, a wanderer must be favored by Fortune. Fortune is not "riches," it is "Poetic Beauty" that comes by surprise!—like a ship coming in from Dover…

Let these men sing out their songs, they've been walking all day long, all their fortune's spent and gone... silver dollar in the subway station; quarters for the papers for the jobs.