If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard Baruch

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Ausonius

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Edward Koch

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.
Sela Ward

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
Luther H. Hodges

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
Jacques-Louis David

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Bodhidharma

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
Thomas Day

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
Anthony Trollope

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

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas de Chamfort

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Titus Livius

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden