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.

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 to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.

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

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you’re not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She’d been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

We don’t want to make a fortune. We just want to make a living.

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

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

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise.

Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

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.

The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.

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

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

Religions tend to disappear with man’s good fortune

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are miserable and suffering, we want to die and leave it all. But can joy or misery last forever? There is a saying, “All celebrations must end sometime.” Any wish to live forever or die...

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill… If luck favours the player, he gets what he...

Life-ahead is timeless fortune.

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.

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

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn’t expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew...

[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 be forced to become a leading incubator of environmental innovation simply because the in-country collision between people’s needs and the...

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

Good fortune is created/written/made.

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. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much...

No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

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

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words ‘chance’ and ‘coincidence.’ For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as...

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has failed, your schemes that have proved illusions. But like a man prepared, like a brave man, bid farewell to her,...

The thing about it is, Michael Robinson, Matthew Rice and me, you would think that we are fortune-tellers, the way we scripted the season up to this point. We predicted it all.

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.

Fortune love you.

I am evenThe natural fool of fortune.

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.

Fortune is either with you or it’s not.

Fortune’s fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.