Quotes About Self-made

I never had a role model or something.

My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It's the best feeling now, because I don't really feel like I owe anybody.

My father is pretty much a self-made man, and I am proud of that. He was born in Patiala and crossed the border from India to Pakistan when he was four.

My father said he will always support me but just not as an action director. It is a deal between both of us. He is an inspiration because he is a self-made man. I want to set that same example for my kids. I will fight it out.

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

I truly consider sports stars as the real stars because they represent our country, which makes them really stand apart. I don't think I can be one of them, and I just find them extremely confident and self-made.

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

There are those who are born, those who are made, and then there are ones like this guy, the kind who choose.

It was only natural that the hardships of his youth should enhance his subsequent achievement in his eyes, particularly since it resulted exclusively from his own energy and iron diligence. It was the pride of the self-made man which made him want his son to rise to the same position in life, or, of course, even higher if possible, especially since, by his own industrious life, he thought he would be able to facilitate his child's development so greatly.

I want to categorically say that whatever I am, I have made a space for myself in Indian politics and media out of my own perseverance and hard work.

I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

The media is biased against me because I'm a self-made woman.

I started at the bottom. Nobody has given me anything.

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.

I am a self-made brat.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I've always been a businesswoman.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.