Fortune quotes and sayings

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

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.

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

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

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

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

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

Liberty produces wealth and wealth destroys liberty.

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

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.

All I'm asking for is what I want!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The money men make lives after them.

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

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.

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

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

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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