Lady Fortune

A lesson to be learned: Lady Fortune is as fickle as they come.

“Lady Fortune is friend and foe. Of poor she makes rich and rich poor also. Turns misery to prosperity And wellness unto woe. So let no man trust this lady Who turns her wheel ever so!”

Though he did not sing in his usual bellowing voice, it was his voice all the same: “Lady Fortune is friend and foe. Of poor she makes rich and rich poor also. Turns misery to prosperity And wellness unto woe. So let no man trust this lady Who turns her wheel ever so!”

And the tradition of Okie endurance—of uncomplainingly handling dust storms, tornadoes, poor soil, economic depressions—heightens the sense that Lady Fortune spins you up, spins you down.

Chris Jahnke, founder of Positive Communications, has helped hundreds of all-star speakers like the first lady, Fortune 500 CEOs and politicians running for office look and sound their best. “There is a huge generational difference,” Jahnke said.