(1467 quotes found)
“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.”
Mark Twain
“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”
“Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.”
A. A. Milne
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
“His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust”
Buddha
“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