Top 386 Fortunes Quotes & Sayings

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Manners make often fortunes.

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.

I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today.

For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes. As soon as you realize your helplessness at the mercy of your fate, you are again in despair. Thus the hatred of fate can be generated not only by misfortunes, but also by great fortunes. Your hatred of fate is at the same time your hatred of your self. You hate your self for being so helpless under the crushing power of fate.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

I kept an eye on Chelsea's fortunes after they first tried to sign me.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

Hindi film industry's fortunes are directly connected to that of the world finance markets.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

As Donald Trump`s fortunes continue to slide, he`s increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican`s weapon.

Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.