When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a…

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

— Glenn Beck

“Couldn't stand that she saw right through what I did to her - the shame I felt when she didn't cry or shout and…

— Robin York

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind…

— George Matthew Adams

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Oscar Levant

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

— Raj Kundra

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

— Will Rogers

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

— Dan Mangan

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.

— Isadore Sharp

I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around…

— Christian McKay

The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative –…

— Kurt Lewin

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

— Learned Hand

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

— Oscar Isaac

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.

— Tamara Ecclestone

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

— Joe R. Lansdale