Quotes About Self-made

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'.

We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

I drink bullet coffee, and I make it myself because I hate coffee. I get a shot of raw coffee, mix it with butter from grass-fed cows and coconut milk. It's amazing!

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

Baby, everything I have I've worked for and gotten myself.

I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.

Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.

Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

certain kind of good fortune generally attends self-made men to the last. It is their children of the first, or first and second, generation who are in greater danger, for the race can no more repeat its most successful performances suddenly and without its ebbings and flowings of success than the individual can do so, and the more brilliant the success in any one generation, the greater as a general rule the subsequent exhaustion until time has been allowed for recovery.

She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.

I worked my butt off to get where I am. I love it. I love the money. I love the power. I'm a king, baby, and I love being king.

That's what's so wonderful about you, you're so self-sufficient that I feel that you've created your own self.

No one is self-made in actual sense. Yes! anyone who claims to be a self-made person is delusive. For, each and everyone of us has been helped, supported or blessed by someone else or God himself in one way or another. Thus, you've got to show gratitude to anyone or God who deserves it. -Emeasoba George

Their credo was the exact opposite of the idea prevailing in the more newly minted United States, that there was a peculiar extra virtue in being lowly born, that only the self-made carried the badge of ability and that men of easy circumstances were more likely than not to be stupid or wicked, if not both.

I'd been doing my own thing, and making my own money; I wasn't built by a record label or the music industry, nor was I built by prominent artists that have given me co-signs.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

I've never been spoon-fed for my whole career, I have always done it the hard way as a player and a manager.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!