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• Luck and laziness go hand in hand.

  Topics in Irish Proverbs

  Tags in Fortune

• Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.

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  Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike.

  C. S. Lewis

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  Tags in Destroy, Fortune

• I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

  Patti Stanger

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  Tags in Fortune, Sales

• The truth is, the ‘Fortune’ 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

  Bradley A. Smith

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  Tags in Lobbying, Fortune
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  If you work hard on your job you can make a living, if you work hard on yourself you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Topics in Job, Work

  Tags in Fortune, Living

• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Goal, Mother, Success

  Tags in Good, Best, Fortune

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Fortune, Books, Women

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Topics in Genius

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• The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fortune, Materialism

• I am convinced that you don’t need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

  Jil Sander

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  Tags in Spend, Fortune

• I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

  Birch Bayh

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  Tags in Right, Fortune

• I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church – and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

  Paul Kantner

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Fortune, Catholic

• A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

  Bill Gates

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• I’m fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

  Bernard Cornwell

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  Tags in Fortune, Books

• I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

  Francois Hollande

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Finally, Fortune

• He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

  Francis Quarles

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Fortune, Good

• Fortune, that favors fools.

  Ben Jonson

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• Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

  Ben Jonson

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  Tags in Fortune, Man