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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Diligence Fortune Good Good Fortune Mother

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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.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Ambition Been Console Fortune Great Great Men Lack Limit Men Merit Moderation People Virtue Want

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

~Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Dinner Fortune He Never Sure Waits

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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

Topics: Advantages Day Every Every Day Felicity Fortune Good Good Fortune Great Happen Human Little Much Occur Pieces Produced Seldom

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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

Topics: Average Being Correct Cut Even Fortune Good Half He His Hitting Losses Out Person Quickly Right Sense Should Time Times Ventures Where Wrong Yield

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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.

~Bethany Mclean

Topics: After Be Different Conviction Different Ever Everything Fortune Going Jeff Ken Lay Now Piece Saying Story Worst Wrote

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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.

~Beverly Sills

Topics: Before Boston Brilliant Career Cost Daughter Did Fortune Hers Hundred Hundred Times Least Marie None Often Over Productions Role Sang Sarah Say Sure Times Touched Vintage Which

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The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Anyone Attorney Charging Clark Closed Crime District Fortune Handling Investigation Manhattan Million Reclusive Without

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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: After Age Assumed Born Children Civil Civil War Clark Dead Fortune Had He His Long Lost Made Montana People Reputation Serve War Were Where William

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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

Topics: Away Back Fortune Given Go High Inherited Less Likely Most Once Percentage Society Very Will

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