Quotes About Fortune

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.

The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter - my great-grandmother - spent it.

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.

I've enjoyed the benefits of this country, which has been very good to me.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I know how good I have it. You can't find a much better job than this. There are only 300 players in this league, so I feel very fortunate and proud to be one of those players.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

You can have a big hit and not get rich.

My personal goal is to be a billionaire.

I wanted to be a billionaire.

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars - like really had the ability to do that.

I'm always open to anything. I haven't been that selective, I've just been fortunate to get projects I'm excited about. It's a little bizarre being a part of things that you really, really enjoy.

Luck's always to blame.

I have actually been very blessed in my career.

I feel truly blessed by Forever 21's success.

I'm blessed to have these billions of dollars.

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?

Anytime you get a win in this league, it's a blessing.

Sometimes a blessing will come out of mistakes.

I am fortunate to be on board with one of India's top sports management group.