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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
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
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
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, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them
but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride. — William C. Bryant
I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.
— Agatha Christie
My hard fortunesDeserve 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
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
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
Thus at the flaming forge of lifeOur 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
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
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
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
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 elitethose 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
... 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
Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.
— William Shakespeare
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
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