Quotes About Fortune

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

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.

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.

I was fortunate to work with some very powerful producers like Tom Miller and Bob Boyett.

Opportunity today, prosperity tomorrow.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.

I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

Cleveland, although I didn't play a lot I really learned a ton in my year and a half of being there. I was really fortunate to be around some of the game's best players.

I made a ton of money.

You know, another thing people don't realize is that there's a ton of luck in 'Jeopardy.'