Quotes About Fortune

Luck always favors those who are bold.

luck could be a fleeting thing. It had to be earned and then guarded with everything you had.

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Herger said to me, Be thankful, for you are fortunate. I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.

Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate." I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, then this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.

He had envisioned a river of rent payments from apartments and businesses that would eventually pay off his financiers and yield millions of dollars in net revenues even as inflation drove up the value of the property. This formula—investment + time = revenue and higher value—was the magic of real estate. By following it, Fred Trump had amassed assets that allowed him to develop ever bigger projects while simultaneously reducing the risk to his personal fortune.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half.

Things went so well for him so often that no one ever needed to worry about how he behaved when they didn't go well.

It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart.

American bond traders may have sunk their firms by turning a blind eye to the risks in the subprime bond market, but they made a fortune for themselves in the bargain, and have for the most part never been called to account.

As we left they told us the old joke. To start a journey in a sandstorm is good luck.

those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.

For those cities that were great in earlier times must have now become small, and those that were great in my time were small in the time before.… Man's good fortune never abides in the same place.

We all slept with Herodotus. "For those cities that were great in earlier times must have now become small, and those that were great in my time were small in the time before.… Man's good fortune never abides in the same place.

Girls with poison necklaces to save themselves from torture. Just as women wear amulets which hold their rolled up fortunes transcribed on ola leaf.

I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

I'm just fortunate to get to sing songs composed by such great musicians. It's a bonus that the songs have been received well.

I consider myself really lucky every single day. To the point where I feel guilty a lot because I have so much and so many other people don't have what I have.

I am indeed fortunate to work with some reputed directors like Balaji Sakthivel, Sekhar Kammula, and KV Anand sir. Each one of them has a different style, and every day is a learning experience for me.

I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.