Fortune Quotes - Page 10

• I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

  Alan Kay

  Teacher, Lying, Book

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• If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Men, Twenties

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• Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

  Bill Gates

  Caring, Self, Circles

  Remarks by Bill Gates at World Economic Forum 2008 "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century" in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Doctors, People

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• If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Greatness, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “Sermons”, p.240

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• We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

  Randolph Bourne

  Quality, May, Guarding

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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• This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Past

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• Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

  Neal Boortz

  Fortune Cookie, Cookies, Economics

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• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

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• I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

  Dave Barry

  Productive Work, People, Sound

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• The world is an abundant place. Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love. Reach into that abundance and take what is rightfully yours. It is your inheritance, gifted to you by God. Let yourself have it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Opportunity, Ideas, Inheritance

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 22, 2016

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• How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hands, Challenges, Encounters

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 04, 2017

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• Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

  Simon Sinek

  Leadership, Mean, Earning It

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.65, Penguin

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• More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….

  Sebastiao Salgado

  War, Opportunity, Land

  Sebastião Salgado (2000). “Migrations: Humanity in Transition”

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• If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Mathematics, Should, Mathematical

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• See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature. It is the same with human life. Victory and defeat are one in the vast stream of life. Victory is the beginning of defeat, and who can rest safely in victory? Impermanence is the nature of all things of this world. Even you will find your ill fortunes too will change. It is easy to understand the impatience of the old, whose days are numbered, but why should you young ones fret when the future is yours?

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Prayer, Victory And Defeat, World

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• He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

  Isaac Barrow

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "The theological works of Isaac Barrow".

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

  Evelyn Ashford

  Want, Fame

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• Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

  E. O. Wilson

  Discovery, Intellectual, Firsts

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• Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

  Pearl Cleage

  Believe, Flower, Home

  Pearl Cleage (2009). “Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: A Novel”, p.8, One World

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Summer, Song, Nice

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Business, Political, Secret

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• To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Achievement, Lap, Resources

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• To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

  Carrying On, Aviation, Predictions

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