Fortune Quotes

• I don't know the reason for that particular band's fortune or lack of it. But, in our case, I think it's the music that we make and made is timeless. It may remind you of the time you heard it.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Music
  • Fortune
  • Timeless

• No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Being
  • Fortune
  • Worthy

• My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • School
  • Library
  • Mathematics

• Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Activity

• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Business
  • Luck
  • Boat

• Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Fortune
  • Apple

• There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • War
  • Fortune
  • Subject

• Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

  

  Susan Hill
  • World
  • Book
  • Fortune

• I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

  

  Bridget Carpenter
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Reverence

• 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.

  

  Gerard Houllier
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Player

• The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Challenge
  • Fortune
  • Destruction

• We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Trying
  • War

• When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

  

  Michael Apted
  • Fortune
  • Granada

• I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Fortune
  • Happened
  • Parliament

• It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Deserve
  • Fortune
  • Difficulty

• I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Government
  • Policy
  • Fortune

• In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • True
  • Judge
  • Fortune

• Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Goddess
  • Charm
  • Fairness

• Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.

  

  Plutarch
  • Confident
  • Continue
  • Human Affairs

• Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Inspiration
  • Fortune
  • Poets

• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Way
  • Believed
  • Transform

• On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Life
  • Fortune
  • Slender

• The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Goods

• Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

  

  Critias
  • Fighting
  • Sides
  • Prudent

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