Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Genius is patience.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.