Top 50 Self-Made Quotes

Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.

I come from a middle-class family and I value money. This is something that attracted me to my boyfriend Farhan Azmi too. He is a self-made man and very level-headed.

Luke Cage isn’t going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, ‘This is the world I’m in. These are the circumstances I have.’ He’s a self-made man. He’s trying to continuously build, and that’s what’s interesting about him. He’s a work in progress.

I want to be self-made and leave a mark.

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he’s elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he’s inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

The people I believed in were people like William Lever, the great philanthropic industrialist – self-made men who realised anyone could achieve.

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

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

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

I’m a self-made actor in Bollywood. And when I see actors far more good-looking and talented than me struggling for a place, I feel quite happy with my place.

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they’re absolutely original and completely self-made.

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

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don’t feel entitled to success.

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

I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it’s not a word I throw around lightly. But with all that comes the idiosyncratic behavior of a self-made, talented, creative person, and that’s not easy to come up against.

I’m a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18.

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.

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

I watch a TV show called ‘Shark Tank.’ It’s one of my favorite TV shows. It’s basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing… I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

It’s just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

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

Brady Hoke is an underdog. He has an attitude, a chip. He’s self-made. He always has something to prove.

I am a self-made brat.

I don’t deny that fact that I like Gauahar. She is hardworking, self-made and self-respecting. Somewhere, I see my own personality traits in her. But that’s about it. We are not in a relationship.

Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.

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

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.

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

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

Papa had some amazing qualities. He was a very spiritual person. He was very passionate about his work. He was a completely self-made man. At the same time, his generosity and kindness were two aspects of him that really defined his personality.

At the end of the day, I’m the biggest boss. I’m self-made.

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can’t make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

I’m really a self-made businesswoman.

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.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

I love Priyanka Chopra mainly because she is a self-made woman.

I, along with everybody else, had bought into the myth of Donald being a self-made man and being a brilliant developer. I had no idea that none of that was true because everybody acted like it was true.

I’m self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream – to have class.

We have big, big problems – flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing – I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

I’m self-made.

Nobody should underestimate me. When you have a self-made fighter like I am with the Pride belt I earned, it’s not good to underestimate him.

I don’t believe in that term ‘self-made’ – not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it’s one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you’re at today.

My father has been a motivation in my life, he always taught me to be a self-made man because he also started with nothing.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

When you’re a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that’s a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.

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.

I don’t believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that’s the case, you ain’t self-made.

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

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.