Quotes About Fortune

L'ebbrezza non si improvvisa. Rientra nel campo dell'arte, che esige talento e cura. Bere a caso non porta da nessuna parte. Se la prima sbornia il più delle volte ha del miracoloso, dipende unicamente dalla nota fortuna del principiante: situazione che, per definizione, non si ripeterà.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

There was a time in my life when I was independently wealthy.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

I believe with great fortunes come great responsibility, so with our family's assets and many wealthy friends, we could help raise a lot of money to help others.

The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.

I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

I don't know if I can call myself the poster boy. But yes, I am fortunate that a lot of work that I did was on the web. It has definitely got me some really good roles and a great audience.

Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.