Quotes about Fortunes

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. Votes: 4

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them. Votes: 3

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. Votes: 3

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. Votes: 3

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle! Votes: 3

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. Votes: 3

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. Votes: 3

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well. Votes: 3

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. Votes: 3

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes. Votes: 2

My pride fell with my fortunes. Votes: 2

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Votes: 2

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. Votes: 2

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. Votes: 2

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. Votes: 2

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Votes: 2

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player. Votes: 2

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense. Votes: 2

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. Votes: 2

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. Votes: 2

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing. Votes: 2

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. Votes: 2

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it. Votes: 2

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. Votes: 2

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? Votes: 2

President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them. Votes: 2

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! Votes: 2

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. Votes: 2

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Votes: 2

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. Votes: 2

Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar. Votes: 2

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering. Votes: 2

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. Votes: 2

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. Votes: 2

Manners make often fortunes. Votes: 0

Life holds timeless fortunes for you. Votes: 0

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost. Votes: 0

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness. Votes: 0

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. Votes: 0

We make our fortunes and we call them fate. Votes: 0

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. Votes: 0

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands. Votes: 0

The major fortunes in America have been made in land. Votes: 0

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service. Votes: 0

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. Votes: 0

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. Votes: 0

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man. Votes: 0

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. Votes: 0

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. Votes: 0

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes. Votes: 0

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. Votes: 0

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. Votes: 0

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. Votes: 0

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow. Votes: 0

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today. Votes: 0

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills. Votes: 0

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. Votes: 0

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. Votes: 0

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. Votes: 0

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. Votes: 0

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. Votes: 0

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. Votes: 0

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. Votes: 0

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. Votes: 0

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. Votes: 0

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. Votes: 0

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. Votes: 0

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune. Votes: 0

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. Votes: 0

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. Votes: 0

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction. Votes: 0

For me [Crimea], it is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes. Votes: 0

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Votes: 0

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Votes: 0

Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy. Votes: 0

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. Votes: 0

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them. Votes: 0

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Votes: 0

Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money. Votes: 0

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. Votes: 0

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. Votes: 0

This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave. Votes: 0

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. Votes: 0

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. Votes: 0

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. Votes: 0

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. Votes: 0

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. Votes: 0

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Votes: 0

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around. Votes: 0

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. Votes: 0

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government. Votes: 0

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, Votes: 0

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] Votes: 0

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin' Votes: 0

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. Votes: 0

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. Votes: 0

As Donald Trump`s fortunes continue to slide, he`s increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican`s weapon. Votes: 0

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes. Votes: 0

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. Votes: 0

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring. Votes: 0

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. Votes: 0

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. Votes: 0

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state Votes: 0

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. Votes: 0

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. Votes: 0

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone. Votes: 0

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. Votes: 0

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate. Votes: 0

I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands. Votes: 0

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. Votes: 0

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought! Votes: 0

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. Votes: 0

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. Votes: 0

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. Votes: 0

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. Votes: 0

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st. Votes: 0

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes. Votes: 0

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. Votes: 0

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high. Votes: 0

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war! Votes: 0

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes. Votes: 0

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." Votes: 0

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes. Votes: 0

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes. Votes: 0

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last. Votes: 0

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. Votes: 0

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. Votes: 0

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad. Votes: 0

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. Votes: 0

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Votes: 0

So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride. Votes: 0

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money. Votes: 0

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving. Votes: 0

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. Votes: 0

Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul. Votes: 0

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness. Votes: 0

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. Votes: 0

It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward. Votes: 0

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation. Votes: 0

Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields. Votes: 0

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take. Votes: 0

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work. Votes: 0

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd. Votes: 0

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest. Votes: 0

So each time a person decides to wait for 'time to change things', he or she is actually waiting for other people to change his or her fortunes. Votes: 0

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. Votes: 0

It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources. Votes: 0

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. Votes: 0

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online. Votes: 0

The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes Votes: 0

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal. Votes: 0

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. Votes: 0

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. Votes: 0

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. Votes: 0

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book. Votes: 0

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them. Votes: 0

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation. Votes: 0

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them. Votes: 0

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? Votes: 0

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case. Votes: 0

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created. Votes: 0

In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business. Votes: 0

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust. Votes: 0

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind. Votes: 0

Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to. Votes: 0

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market. Votes: 0

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave. Votes: 0

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks. Votes: 0

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Votes: 0

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices. Votes: 0

Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around! Votes: 0

A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them. Votes: 0

The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake. Votes: 0

Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach. Votes: 0

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America. Votes: 0

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. Votes: 0

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here? Votes: 0

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. Votes: 0

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not. Votes: 0

The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world. Votes: 0

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered. Votes: 0

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences. Votes: 0

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us. Votes: 0

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's. Votes: 0

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. Votes: 0

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. Votes: 0

The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Votes: 0

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well. Votes: 0

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Votes: 0

Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn. Votes: 0

Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become. Votes: 0

Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels. Votes: 0