I wanted to be famous and I wanted to make a fortune, and I’ve done that.
‘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.
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.
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I’d ever meet anyone to have a baby with.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.
I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
You don’t make a fortune doing cartoons. It’s a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it’s better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn’t make you rich. It just doesn’t.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn’t quite believe and share it with everyone around him.
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.
Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain’t life.
My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.
I just like people. I’ll hold a conversation at a gas station. It’s not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Everyone thinks with ‘Smash,’ because it looks glossy and big, they think they’re spending a fortune, and they think it’s taking weeks to shoot.
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren’t too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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.
The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?
The ‘Daughter of the Regiment’ that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I’m sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
The one thing that I’ve always wanted to do with my work is to create value and that’s something that I’ve been able to do with all the projects I’ve had the fortune to be a part of. It’s the one thing that inspires me.
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I’ve managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.
Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic.
A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.
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.
Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I’m not sure I would have had the fortune that I’ve had.
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
I won’t give the credit to ‘good fortune.’ Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America’s Fortune 500 companies.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
When I did ‘Bremner, Bird and Fortune’ I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don’t reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that’s true of people. And I think it’s true of countries.
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
I don’t think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
I’ve seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it’s ugly.
Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for ‘Fortune’ saying everything’s going to be different now.
I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.
It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.
I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don’t know what accounts for my good fortune, but I’m grateful for it.
The truth is, the ‘Fortune’ 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.
I’m swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
I think, because I’ve been working for a while, I’ve been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.
I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the road.
My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.
I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
