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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

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.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune."

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.