self made man, n.Definitions

A Self-made man is generally a man who worships his creator.

The Self-made man is rare. Most are the revised work of a wife and children.

A Self-made man is all too often the living proof of the horrors of unskilled labor.

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

The Self-made man is non-existent. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

A Self-made man is rarely a self-made man — When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: "Whose?"

The Self-made man is a myth — Show me a self-made man, and in seconds I'll scratch through to the social clay from which he was molded.

The Self-made man is sure his success has nothing to do with luck — luck is not something you can mention in the presence of a self-made man.