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Action makes more fortune than caution.
Charlotte Whitton
Action
More
Makes
Caution
Than
Fortune
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
Chris Sarandon
Disappointment
People
Sometimes
Goals
Advice
Stage
Think
Bitter
Seductive
Attained
Lifestyle
Wrong
Feel
Wrong Reasons
Go
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Being
Shortcut
Acting
Fortune
Aspiring
Reasons
Actor
Twice
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
Dan Hill
Best
Reality
People
Doctor
Doctors
Own
Control
Think
Our
Misfortune
Know
Masters
Lot
Going
Just
Want
Us
Fortune
Help
Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
Dan Pena
Me
Business
Dangerous
Made
First
Waters
Took
Onassis
Mentor
Lifelong
Had
He
Aristotle
Liking
Became
How
His
Shipping
Icon
Fortune
Deep
Swim
Associate
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
Daniel Nathans
Life
Good
My Life
Few
Back
Way
Struck
Look
Am
Came
Decades
Fortune
Good Fortune
Last
I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.
Dave Pelzer
Myself
Lie
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Get
Fortune
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.
David Antin
Made
Out
Inventing
Idea
Real
Contradictory
Disney
Fortune
Businessman
Imaginary
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.
David Byrne
Life
Hardships
Made
Those
Would
Easy
Cheap
Advance
Excitement
Knew
New
Make
Without
Were
Up
York
Heat
Move
New York
Being
Fortune
Here
I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
David Cassidy
Good
Had
Lot
Fortune
Good Fortune
Awful
Awful Lot
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
David Friedman
Fighting
Spent
Never
Got
Years
Anywhere
Fortune
Fought
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.
David Gross
Nature
Problems
More
Nobel
Generous
Know
His
Fortunately
Fortune
Aware
'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.
David Hepworth
You
Business
Made
Apps
Tell
Some
Cases
Something
Guy
Dating
Entrepreneurs
Name
Learn
Built
How
Inevitably
Selling
Stories
Story
Whether
Ask
Fortune
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
David Hepworth
Moody
People
Song
Made
White
Nights
Teenager
Brought
Girlfriend
Had
He
Written
Him
His
Lot
Subsequently
Blues
Which
Justin
Fortune
Satin
Drafted
I was not driven by fame and fortune.
David Jason
Driven
Fame
Fame And Fortune
Fortune
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
David Mallet
Own
Virtue
Hath
Never
Knew
Himself
Known
His
Fortune
Ill
Who
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
Good
Great
You
Will
Somebody
Else
Imitating
Worry
See
Steal
Soon
Nobody
Advertising
Another
Built
Campaign
Brand
Irritating
Agency
Create
Fortune
Ever
Good Fortune
I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
Dennis Christopher
Good
Theatre
People
Amazing
First
Legend
Broadway
Broadway Show
Some
Had
Period
Amazing People
Maureen
Mean
Taylor
Working
Show
Fortune
Good Fortune
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Taylor
For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
Dick Van Patten
Great
People
Before
Thousands
Had
Decades
Roles
Eight
Fortune
Nearly
Millions
Playing
Millions Of People
I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.
Dmitri Alperovitch
Those
Entire
Compromised
Divide
Categories
Global
Know
Been
Fortune
Two
Set
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
Donald Sutherland
Work
Truth
Hard Work
Good
Me
You
Partner
Whatever
Bit
Those
Out
Find
Pursuit
Talent
Terrific
Lot
Little
Little Bit
Worked
Really
Certain
Hard
Fortune
Lucky
Good Fortune
Amount
Things
Four
Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
Douglas Alexander
Family
History
Fate
Sometimes
Comrades
Economics
Neighbours
Allies
Rivals
Also
Partners
Geography
Friends
Friends And Family
Scotland
May
Fortune
England
If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.
Dylan Lauren
Buy
Women
Will
Rich
Avenue
Spend
Bears
Come
Store
Sweaters
Fortune
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.
Ed Koch
Me
Other
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Pot
End
Intend
Did
Fortune
Traveled
Rainbow
Murphy
Dame
As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!
Ed Kowalczyk
Good
Musicians
Wonderful
Band
Incredible
Plenty
Record
Both
Onstage
Had
Songwriter
Volume
Singer
Rock
Rock Band
Lots
Surrounded
Being
Successful
Production
Fortune
Good Fortune
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Eden Phillpotts
Build
Ambition
Never
Had
Mere
Make
Been
Goal
Fortune
I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or related with.
Elden Henson
Good
People
Whatever
Related
Some
Had
Identified
Movies
Younger
Fortune
Reason
Good Fortune
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