Quotes About Fortune

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.

Rum makes a fine hot drink, a fine cold drink, and is not so bad from the neck of a bottle. —FORTUNE MAGAZINE, 1933

Well, I'm not as lucky as you to have this every day.

fifty dollars before! Where had it come from? His mind spun with all the possibilities of what to do with it. No doubt about it, this was shaping up to be one of the best days ever!

Talent attracts opportunity.

The probability of becoming rich is much greater than of becoming poor.

He who has once been happy is for aye Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then Holds nothing secret; and Eternity, Which is a mystery to other men, Has like a woman given him its joy.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome. Our

A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome. Our story was no exception.

And the more luck was involved, the less there is to be learned.

luck plays a large role in every story of success;

success = talent + luck great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck

The comparison of firms that have been more or less successful is to a significant extent a comparison between firms that have been more or less lucky.

These were my offerings: success = talent + luck great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck

you win a few, you lose a few.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person—you already feel fortunate. An optimistic attitude is largely inherited, and it is part of a general disposition for well-being, which may also include a preference for seeing the bright side of everything.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

five-hundred-gram gold ingots.

no existe persona inteligente a la que el azar le ha negado un día de gloria en un ínfimo reino,