Quotes About Fortune

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

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

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

Having money is just the best thing in the world.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.