Quotes About Fortune

Gordon Way, brother of Susan, employer of Richard MacDuff, was a rich man, the founder and owner of WayForward Technologies II. WayForward Technologies itself had of course gone bust, for the usual reason, taking his entire first fortune with it.

Fortune makes promises to many, keeps them to none. Live for each day, live for the hours, since nothing is forever yours.

Favours come to us from gods.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

No troubles has come my way--touching wood. He rapped the counter sharply with his knuckles.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Wonderful luck that was, Mrs. Oliver thought to herself.

La tristezza è vedere solo quello che ti è stato portato via. La celebrazione della vita è riconoscere tutta la fortuna che abbiamo avuto, e sentirci immensamente riconoscenti.

I can't help wondering what fate had prepared me so well for this road I was to take in life. All I can say is that the preparation was totally unconscious on my part.

We're in the money,We're in the money,We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

What's called luck is usually an outgrowth of successful communication.

Las personas que consiguen lo que no merecen sufren terribles desgracias."- Las amapolas del emperador.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

I had always wondered why people wanted to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. To be famous and not rich, the way we were, was the least fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.

John Jacob Astor succeeded in amassing America's biggest fortune by trading in the furs of beavers, otters, muskrats, and bears (though he wisely used some of the money he made from hunting in America's great wilderness to buy real estate in Manhattan).

It wasn't always about bravery or some shining inner goodness. It could just as easily be about the position of your name in the alphabet, the chemistry of your blood, or