Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I’ve found, however, is work.

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will...

Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration

We’re used to seeing a radio station turn around in one rating period. You change the talent, the ratings go up, your revenues follow and you’ve made a fortune out of it. Television, unfortunately, is...

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king’s palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what...

The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

Fortune is either with you or it’s not.

What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable to her and impossible to stick to. She was tired of fate, which...

My good fortune was that I married her.

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore....

When you’re working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as...

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or...

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they...

[One of the optimists is eco-designer Bill McDonough , whom we bumped into in Beijing, at the Fortune Global Forum this May. As chair of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development, he believes China will...

Fortune’s a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.

Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you’re trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn’t floating right.

Today is an ephemeral ghost…A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not “exist.”In mundane terms, it marks a “leap” in time, when the...

A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.

Good fortune comes with many fears. It is always threatened by tragedies. But misfortune always tends to hope and peace. Hope is the heart of life. Flowers have fear of being withered while Thorns have...

I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit...

Vielleicht wird unser Vorurteil auch dadurch bestärkt, daß es – von außen gesehen – oft vom Leben Begünstigte zu sein scheinen, […] denen wir daher sozusagen das Recht nicht zusprechen wollen, daß sie erkrankten; kennt...

Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

What i’m saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune’s a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Fortune Interactive was conceived with two core goals in mind; increase our clients’ revenue while maintaining the highest levels of communication. The search marketing industry is suffering from growing-pains with relatively few companies able to...

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

when morning arrives, a day comes. Each day opens it doors of fortune and misfortune to all. There is non who is neither fortunate nor unfortunate in a day. The onus lies on pilgrims of...

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

I am evenThe natural fool of fortune.

You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance beyond all common measure or human comprehension. But until you assert your rightful...

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

Normality wasn’t in the days I’d left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.