Zitat des Tages über Selbstgemacht / Self-Made:
In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.
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.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
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.
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've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
I love Priyanka Chopra mainly because she is a self-made woman.
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.
Self-made men often worship their creator.
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.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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 had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.
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.
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.