“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
Jean Paul Getty
“Men appear to prefer to ruin one another's fortunes, and to cut each other's throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human happiness”
Voltaire
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“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
“There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.”
Jane Austen
