In Coelho's telling, the protagonist is an Andalusian shepherd boy (Coelho says that he is that shepherd boy) who, bedding down with his flock in an abandoned church, dreams of finding a fortune at the Pyramids, in Egypt.
Wilbur Ross became rich investing in faltering businesses like steel mills and coal mines, finding a fortune in blue-collar industries that others dismissed as beyond saving.
Luxury is in the details, whether it's finding a chocolate-dipped fortune cookie on your pillow or being whisked by private plane to Marlon Brando's island sanctuary.
They kind of focus on it as sort of their one chance of achieving fame and fortune, finding a better life for themselves and their families.
Instead, Thiel is devoting much of his fortune to finding a cure for aging, bursting the education bubble, and jump-starting space travel and artificial intelligence.
But we wouldn't be going anywhere if we hadn't had the great fortune of finding a community that is exactly what we hope, in a tiny way, to emulate.
The room really came together, however, when the Fiells had the good fortune of finding a brass fire surround and matching mantelpiece from 1873 by the architect-designer Thomas Jeckyll, best known for his ornate metalwork for Barnard, Bishop & Barnard.
Today you can make your name and fortune by finding a good representation system.
Matrix had the good fortune of finding a champion at a very high level in the Amdocs org chart.
In 1888, a French newspaper, mistakenly thinking the inventor and industrialist had died, published Alfred Nobel's obituary, headlining it "The Merchant of Death is Dead". The obituary read: "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who made his fortune by finding a way to kill the most people as ever before in the shortest time possible, died yesterday". Actually, Alfred's brother Ludvig was the one who had died.
Many of those living in the South died without meeting their children, spouses or siblings in the North again or finding a way to bequeath their fortunes to those living in the impoverished North.
