To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.
Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies.
Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
Finds in adversity the seed of praise.
The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.
Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life! And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink.
There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.
I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.