Fortune Quotes - Page 32

• A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Greatest Treasure, Happy Marriage, Stills

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• Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

  Mark Haddon

  Years, Two, World

  "I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Character, Odd, Fame

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• Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Peace, War, Sides

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Team, Years

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• You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

  Emo Philips

  Children, Wife, Married

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giants, Peers, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Shows, Show Business

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Matter, Stuff

  "The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Sabian Phippen, theworldly.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
  A motley fool! a miserable world!
  As I do live by food, I met a fool
  Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
  And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
  In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Down And, Fool

  1599-1600 Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.7, l.12-17.

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• Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Waste, Evaporation

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.119

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• When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Heart, Desire

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• Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Thinking, Circles

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.69

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• The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign - that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole - some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Government, Order

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...”, p.3320, Madison & Adams Press

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• I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Family Values, Raised, Large Family

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• Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That's a constant. What's always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Entrepreneur, Marketing

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Yesterday, Today, Poverty

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

  Anne Beatts

  New York, Thinking, Lucky

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• The latest issue of GQ magazine, John Kerry talks about what a man should look for in a woman. GQ? If John Kerry is going to talk about what he likes in a woman, shouldn't it be in Fortune or Money magazine?

  Jay Leno

  Men, Issues, Looks

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• In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.' Then he hugged his wife, Teresa, heir to the multi-million dollar Heinz food fortune.

  Jay Leno

  Night, Wife, Victory

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• Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

  Orison S. Marden

  Real, Simple, Thinking

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• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Tea, Foundation

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.34

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• Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”

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• The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

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• Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.

  Michael Parenti

  Fate, Political, Humanity

  Michael Parenti (2007). “Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader”, p.97, City Lights Books

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