Fortune quotes and sayings

Ayn Rand quotes


Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Douglas MacArthur quotes


The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

John Morley quotes


Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Ovid quotes


My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid quotes


Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Seneca quotes


No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

George Bernard Shaw quotes


Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes


Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Margaret Thatcher quotes


No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

Douglas Adams quotes


Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Aesop quotes


Wealth unused might as well not exist.

William Blake quotes


Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Johnny Carson quotes


The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Bette Davis quotes


To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

William J. Blake quotes


There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

William J. Blake quotes


Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Henry Ford quotes


An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Thomas Frank quotes


Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

Thomas Frank quotes


God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Samuel Johnson quotes


Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Henry Demarest Lloyd quotes


Liberty produces wealth and wealth destroys liberty.

Mark McGwire quotes


If you can't be happy with eleven million dollars, something's wrong with you.

George Bernard Shaw quotes


The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Rickey Henderson quotes


All I'm asking for is what I want!

Craig Dormanen quotes


I sell, therefore, I am. You buy, therefore I eat.

P.J. O'Rourke quotes


It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

Scott Alexander quotes


The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Martin Amis quotes


Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

James Baldwin quotes


Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Henry Ward Beecher quotes


It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has

Jean Jacques Rousseau quotes


Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million

Col. Harland Sanders quotes


There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there

William Shakespeare quotes


A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Ezra Bowen quotes


If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Samuel Butler quotes


The money men make lives after them.

W. J. Cameron quotes


Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

Ray Charles quotes


I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Frank A. Clark quotes


Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Joey Adams quotes


Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Woody Allen quotes


Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Aphra Behn quotes


Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Hilaire Belloc quotes


I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

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