Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

Charles Caleb Colton

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Edward Gibbon

The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Joe Ogilvie

It's a good way to make a small fortune smaller.

Tom Brokaw

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

Tom Golisano

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

Alan Zemaitis

The thing about it is, Michael Robinson, Matthew Rice and me, you would think that we are fortune-tellers, the way we scripted the season up to this point. We predicted it all.

Glenn Martin

We're just in dire need of room for special education. We're using all the space we can, including closets and showers.

Jeff Williams

They still have all their stuff and their closets are full. It never occurred to me how difficult it might be to move into somebody's house with all of their stuff in it and then pick up, without a pause, in the normal day-to-day operations.

Alex Steffen

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

Estella Chung

People who had worked with Leone kept mementos of his films props and costumes and they would pull them out of cupboards and closets and offer them to us for the exhibit. Making these movies was very important to them, even 40 years later.

John Stossel

I was a closet stutterer.

Marianne Williamson

God is definitely out of the closet.

Greg Giraldo

There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.

John Audley

Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?

Greg Kinnear

I have a very well organized closet.