“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
Sallust
“Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her”
Mark Twain
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
Jane Austen
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The more we take the less we become,The fortune of one man means less for some”
Sarah McLachlan
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.”
Ayn Rand
“One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune”
Swedish Proverb