Quotes About Self-made

My limits are of my own making, and are there for the breaking

You must accept the responsibility of being self-made.

The reason there are few self-made rich people is because few people can tolerate disappointment. Instead of learning to face disappointment, they spend their lives avoiding it." Rich dad believed that disappointment is an important part of learning. Just as we learn from our mistakes, we gain character from our disappointments. The following are some words of advice he gave me over the years: Expect to be disappointed.

As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

A powerful, if misleading, impression that the wealthy were self-made discouraged egalitarian yearnings.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

Napoleon's crowning of himself was the ultimate triumph of the self-made man, and in one way a defining moment of the Enlightenment. It was also fundamentally honest: he had indeed got there through his own efforts. It is possible that he later regretted doing it, however, because of the vaulting egoism it suggested.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

The comment smacked of aristocratic disdain for the self-made man. In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton.

Pierpont always acknowledged his debt to his father—he never pretended to be self-made

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you made.

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.

Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Gen X entrepreneurs are frequently smart, tough, tenacious, and self-made. That said, to succeed in their companies, they often have sacrificed being emotionally involved in their marriages and with their children.

He carried himself with that impatient arrogance toward others that is often possessed by men who have succeeded by their own efforts, and too easily.

John D. Rockefeller was not only self-made but self-invented and already had unyielding faith in his own judgment.

It did not occur to any of them that their decision was born of a colossal sense of entitlement, this notion that they could just step away from yesterday and start tomorrow as if it wasn't a part of the same week, to move beyond memory and roots and language and race into the land of the self-made self, which is another way of saying, America.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.