Quotes About Fortune

I don't know how to measure success. I have been fortunate that I got exciting films to do and work with talented directors who brought out the best in me.

I just feel like I am a really lucky guy who these talented directors have found places for me. I feel honored and blessed.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

I was fortunate to work with some of the talented filmmakers of our industry. In addition, one film leads to another. As a newcomer, I explored those opportunities.

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

You trust to luck. You are not about to master your fate.

History," declared Droysen, "is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Money is strange, too, if you haven't used it for a while. Hell is mostly a barter economy. Especially among the high and mighty, having to buy something is a massive social faux pas. It means that you don't have anything good enough to trade or you aren't clever enough to swindle your way to your heart's desire. Brad Pitt's wad seemed like a fortune when I counted it, but I blow through most of it in a couple of hours.

Something evil and full of testosterone must be smiling down on me tonight.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for it is always there. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, "Chance favors the prepared mind.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

When industrial work crippled and epidemic diseases killed, and where chance—freaks of fortune—produced what John Maynard Keynes, the economist, would later call "the radical uncertainties of capitalism," luck as much as effort seemed to dictate outcomes.

Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.