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Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. — Ludwig Von Mises

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. — Daniel Boone

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Innovation invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow. — Horace

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed. — Tali Alexander

Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it — Frederick Forsyth

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands. — Francis Bacon

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. — William Shakespeare

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. — Kahlil Gibran

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Manners make often fortunes. — John Ray

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense. — David Cassidy

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

We are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us ... — Yasmina Khadra

So they, who climb to wealth, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them
but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride. — William C. Bryant

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad. — Phil Ochs

I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes. — Agatha Christie

My hard fortunes
Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud
When they were good. — Francis Beaumont

The world belongs to those who know how to speak well, and fortunes are made by those who write well, — V.C. Andrews

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring. — Orison Swett Marden

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. — Lynn Cullen

life is full of fortunes . Keep cashing every penny out of it and you will be a billionaire — Abhay Kumar Singh

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. — Max Ehrmann

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] — Quintus Ennius

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. — Pierre Charron

His mother's father had been a diplomat, an architect of fortunes; his father's father had been an architect, a diplomat of styles. — Maggie Stiefvater

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. — Frank Sinatra

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes. — Bill Gates

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. — Alexander Pope

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs ... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. — Cindy Sheehan

Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock market. — Robert Wright

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. — Isaac Barrow

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. — Jim Rohn

She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but only once with a man. — Edith Wharton

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle! — Wayne Dyer

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone. — Frank Layden

O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes! — William Shakespeare

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes. — Frank C. Laubach

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around. — Barry O'Sullivan

For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own — Nick Hornby

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes. — Jeff Olson

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. — William Shakespeare

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. — Herodotus

I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up. — Hilary Mantel

Life holds timeless fortunes for you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st. — William Shakespeare

If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed. — Tom Althouse

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them. — Jerry Lewis

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore De Balzac

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. — Mahatma Gandhi

CRM is rather boring in itself.
It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting. — Michael McCafferty

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, — Solomon Northup

My pride fell with my fortunes. — William Shakespeare

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We make our fortunes and we call them fate. — Benjamin Disraeli

So each time a person decides to wait for 'time to change things', he or she is actually waiting for other people to change his or her fortunes. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. — Roman Payne

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills. — Ron Suskind

I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. — Andrew Mellon

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite
those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune. — Drew Karpyshyn

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. — Douglas William Jerrold

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. — Plautus

... she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children. — Louisa May Alcott

War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts! — Kenneth Roberts

despair, even when their practical fortunes were hopeful. How could they understand that the Romans could hope even when their fortunes were hopeless? — G.K. Chesterton

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin' — Frank Costello

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them. — Ludwig Von Mises

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. — Napoleon Hill

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. — John Ruskin

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. — William Shakespeare

A sad truth about fortunes - they take decades to build and no time at all to spend. — Pamela Sherwood

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. — J. Paul Getty

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. — Mo Yan

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. — William Shakespeare

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. — Alice Cary

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes. — Thomas Jefferson

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

business men accumulate great fortunes, by giving before they try to get. — Napoleon Hill

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost. — Laozi

Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy. — John Gokongwei

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness. — Luc De Clapiers