Quotes About Fortune

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Twenty-five years earlier there had not been more than five men in the United States worth as much as five million dollars, and there were less than twenty who were worth a million. Now, however, the New York Tribune would report that there were several hundred men in the city of New York alone who were worth at least a million, and a number who were worth at least twenty million.

We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.

A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.

Each time he came back with all his fingers he would flash thumbs-up all around the platform to show how he was lucky, how none of this was ever going to touch him.

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

No matter whether you believe in luck or chance, the final decision is from yourself.

With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance.

Leaving your future to pot luck is holding you back, you are worth more than anything, yet why do you leave everything to chance?

Some people believe they are lucky, and in their belief, become so. Others believe that when good things come to them, it was mere chance, but are grateful, just the same. Either way, it is the expectation of those good things that sets the process of mind power in motion.

I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.

You will have money and all that money can buy.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Alex Madrigal of The Atlantic has reported that fifteen of the top twenty retailers in the Fortune 500 use Helvetica,

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.