Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.
Take the case of Willie Haughey, a self-made Glasgow businessman and big donor to the Labour Party.
It offers a vivid portrait of Ruskin as the precocious only child of a self-made wine merchant.
Move the athletic program to the highest level in college sports and hire a self-made millionaire basketball coach.
Goodnight, a self-made PhD billionaire head of a private company, has a habit of doing what he thinks.
Few movies celebrate so unabashedly and fully the virtues of a self-made businesswoman.
Prior to signing into the mainstream Sheeran blazed a trail as a self-made musician working YouTube, gigs and iTunes.
First, remember that Bloomberg was the founder and first CEO of Bloomberg LP, and is a self-made billionaire.
He approximated that the average collegiate GPA for a self-made millionaire is 2.76.
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It tells the story of a self-made billionaire who has everything money can buy and has run out of challenges.
This character is a self-made billionaire, who truly believes that all he was doing was chasing after the American Dream.
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Wang was thin and angular, with the bearing of a self-made man.
Edwards is a self-made oil billionaire who was earlier than most in appreciating the opportunity of extracting sulphurous oil from sand in northern Alberta.
In his victory remarks Tuesday, Mr. Romney asserted that his party will unite behind his vision as a self-made businessman who can create jobs.
In this tale, a self-made billionaire, near death, is preparing his last will and testament, which, unbeknownst to his money-hungry heirs, contains a head-spinning zinger.
Does a self-made millionaire know more than a trust fund baby?
That transcontinental railroad, completed in 1893, was the only one built entirely with private money on privately purchased land, by a self-made railroad tycoon, James J.
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He is a self-made businessman who owns Cultiba, a corporation that produces cane sugar and molasses, and distributes soft drinks in Mexico, including all Pepsi-brand drinks.
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"It is appreciated that Banerjee is honest, a fighter and a self-made woman, " says Abhirup Sarkar, who teaches economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata.
Whether you are a self-made entrepreneur or working for a major corporation, know what you can offer and know what your end goal is at all times.
Rahr, a self-made billionaire, is pursuing the cause with gusto.
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Dr Mahathir, himself born into the family of a struggling small-town headmaster, is a self-made Malay politician, in contrast to the aristocrats who dominated after independence from Britain in 1957.
There is no such thing as a self-made man.
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He is a self-made millionaire with a better understanding of terrestrial radio than anyone else in the U.S. If anyone knows how to exploit the advertising opportunities for satellite radio, it is Mel.
In fact, Tesla and Musk, a self-made billionaire whose Space X startup is privatizing space travel, would seem to be poster children for the type of entrepreneurialism Romney says he seeks to unleash.
In Hong Kong, perhaps, or even Finland, Slim would be heralded as a striving champion of capitalism, a self-made billionaire celebrated for employing 218, 000 workers and for pushing his country into the modern age.
"It would seem to me to be a self-made kind of individual who has worked his whole life and wants to get away, " muses Greg Archibald , national director of real estate for J.
In an honest, moving and simple memoir which shows self-knowledge without self-indulgence, Ms Laber describes her background as the daughter of a self-made Russian-Jewish entrepreneur in New York who discouraged her fascination with Russian culture.
But as a self-made entrepreneur, and the son of parents who came to America searching for and finding opportunity and success, I can attest to the truth and power of the amalgam of hard work, thrift, responsibility and advancement.
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With his Omega partner Steven Einhorn and fellow-billionaire Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, he has drafted a second open letter, which he hopes will be co-signed by a large group of self-made billionaires, and published as a newspaper advertisement in some swing states.
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