He represented the negative elements of colonization; he had come to make a quick fortune and then leave.

With the average condominium in Manhattan selling for $1.2 million, there are quick fortunes to be made through conversions.

Different land, same old ambition: to grub a quick fortune out of the sleeping ground.

More than anyone she represented the quick fortunes and luxury living that silver sometimes produced in Utah.

Only a few of Pigneau's men stayed for more than two or three year, disappointed in the lack of a quick fortune.

What changed everything was that 1980's dream of making a quick fortune, she said.

Suddenly swarms of immigrants arrived in California, looking to strike quick fortunes.

The newly reborn Chinese stock market created quick fortunes for a handful of investors.

It had always been possible for exceptional young people to strike out and make quick fortunes.

And that sense that a quick fortune could be lurking anywhere.