Rare Fortune

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
--Tacitus

Fortune Favors

“Fortune favors the brave.”
--Titus Livius (Livy)

Ability's Opportunity

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

What is Luck?

“There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Share Riches

“Joyous is he who shares in his riches. The coward hoards and lives in fear, rarely delighting in the fortune that seldom comes his way.”
--Viking Proverb

Moderation

“Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.”
--Benjamin Disraeli

Guided Luck

“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”
--Baltasar Gracian

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Perfect Perspective

“It’s great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who’s bald.”
--Rodney Dangerfield

What to Seek

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
--Mahatma Gandhi

Brave Fortune

“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”
--P.T. Barnum

Fortune's Accomplice

“A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.”
--Gordon Sumner

Fortune's Companion

“Risk is the companion of fortune.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Shared Insterests

“The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.”
--Jean de La Bruyère

Lady Fortune

“When a man is a favorite of fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Audacious Fortune

“Fortune favors the audacious.”
--Desiderius Erasmus

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Fortune Dares

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
--Virgil

Luck's Mother

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
--Benjamin Franklin

Build The Dream

“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."
--John D. Rockefeller

Conduct Yourself

“Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.”
--Publilius Syrus

Education's Value

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”
--Jim Rohn