There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

I buy when other people are selling.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

To succeed in business to reach the top an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money and that is in a business of your own.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

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

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

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.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

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