Quotes About Self-made

It was of no importance. Birth did not matter; heredity was merely a hurdle; one was what one made of oneself; that and no other.

As brothers and sister we knew instinctively that if we were going to stand in darkness, best we stand in a darkness we had made ourselves.

I often find these self-made men are inconsiderate. Very possibly that is why they amass such large fortunes.

When you look at billionaires, many of them share one characteristic: They were not born billionaires.

Akshay Kumar is like a guru. He made a mark in the industry without any godfather. Akshay sir is a superstar only because of his hard work and talent.

I've always gone on the stage and told my stories. I am adventurer and a bard; I come home and I tell my story. Above all, I am a self-made man.

He had come from the humblest of backgrounds, born in a cottage he had built with his own hands

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

I love money because I've earned it.

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

The most successful people started from NOTHING... they didn't wait for the opportunity to knock but created the opportunity on their own... worked hard and made history.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in a charming sort of way. In short, I am all the selfs except selfless. Yet every so often I run across a force of nature that shakes my sublime self-centeredness to its very roots. Something that tears through the landscape like a tornado, leaving nothing but ruin and reexamination in its wake.

I would rather make my name then inherit it.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

As man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul.