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We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

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

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success… All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonour, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor.

Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I’m his son, and I’m stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others.

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

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it’s the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln’s career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase ‘a self-made man’ is a myth all along the way we need support.

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.

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

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

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

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

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

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

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

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.