Quotes about Fortune

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.

Champions make their own luck.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.

Every man who has accumulated a great fortune, has recognized the existence of this stream of life. It consists of one's thinking process. The positive emotions of thought form the side of the stream which carries one to fortune. The negative emotions form the side which carries one down to poverty.

Millions of people look at the achievements of Henry Ford, after he has arrived, and envy him, because of his good fortune, or luck, or genius, or whatever it is that they credit for Ford's fortune. Perhaps one person in every hundred thousand knows the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest, or

accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune and luck. One must realise that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before they acquired money.

When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.