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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Education, Living, Formal

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Lose

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Friendship, Good

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare

Boats, Brings, Steered

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

Good, Woman, She

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin

Sure, Dinner, Waits

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Great, Human

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Worth, Aim

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Happy

We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie Sheen

Work, Art, Before

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Denis Waitley

Life, Integrity, May

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West

Made, Censorship

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Cannot, Minds, Quiet

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Good, Mother, Diligence

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Future, Remember

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Lies, Behind

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, May, Enough

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand

Matter, Started, Wealth

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, United, Seems

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Love, Brave, Favor

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

Mind, Blessing, Riches

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Sense, Common

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

Society, Away, Once

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson

Fool, Guys, Fame

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Bad, Often

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Find, Sun

Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Mind, Prepared, Favors

A great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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