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It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.
I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly
When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
I have the good fortune of working with two brothers who are very accomplished, incredibly smart, and very capable.
It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.