A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

When they take surveys of women in business of the Fortune 500 the successful women 80% of them say they were in sports as a young woman.

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.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends his pleasures patrons and acquaintances are his capital.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful rarely comfortable and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.