Quotes on Self Made Man

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

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 American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.