He was also a war hero and a self-made man.
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He's a self-made man, and he's a romantic with an ego. 14.
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I'm very inspired by my older brother because he's a self-made man.
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He was the archetype of the best sort of Republican self-made man.
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Warhol took the American myth of the self-made man to a logical extreme.
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Trump wasn't -- as he tried to portray himself -- a self-made man at all.
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A self-made man, he worries that our sons have been handed too much.
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" Nonetheless, he said, "The notion that he's a self-made man is a joke.
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He came to the U.S. after World War II and became a self-made man.
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Is he just a circling vulture, or does this self-made man have a plan?
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Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.
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But her real goal was to undermine Trump's portrayal of himself as a self-made man.
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The general was widely beloved in Iran, seen as a patriot and a self-made man.
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For example, large numbers of Americans apparently believe that Donald Trump is a self-made man.
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Unlike the Koch brothers, Mr Soros did not inherit his wealth but is a self-made man.
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Contrary to what many of his followers insist on believing, he is not a self-made man.
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We always knew President Trump was being misleading when he portrayed himself as a self-made man.
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His boorishness is true-blue, but his autobiography of a self-made man is, unlike Scaramucci's, completely invented.
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Anar's net worth has been estimated at a billion dollars, but he is not a self-made man.
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In the swinging '60s, he was the stodgy self-made man: the square in the age of hip.
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An orphan raised in the West Indies, he was the only self-made man in a galaxy of patricians.
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After all, he's a self-made man who can't attribute any of his own success to, say, inherited wealth.
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In a sense it was social progression, the essence of the self-made man; readable entirely by what he wears.
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I'd like to build my own image as a fully self-made man, but it's just not possible or rational.
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For Mr Drahi, a self-made man, Sotheby's is a trophy asset, says François Godard of Enders, a research firm.
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Mr. Miranda's depiction of Hamilton as resourceful immigrant and talented self-made man captures an important aspect of his character.
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With a net worth of $67 billion (give or take), the 86-year-old Buffett is the ultimate self-made man.
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"He is a self-made man," said Ms. Stone, who moved to Nevada a few years ago from outside Vail, Colo.
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Claure is a self-made man, in all likelihood a billionaire, whose rise to success is the stuff of Hollywood legend.
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How Trump got his start By Kate Grise, CNN Clinton hit Trump for his claims that he is a self-made man.
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His messaging would have stressed Mr. Bloomberg's identity as a self-made man and a problem solver not beholden to either party.
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He's a self-made man, the son of a blacksmith who fled his abusive father as a teenager to travel through Europe.
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"Maybe it was time to swap the rugged, frontiersman, self-made man image for that of a more avuncular statesman," he said.
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Analysts describe Mr. Kim as a self-made man, a contrast to the leader's other influential advisers who come from elite families.
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Instead of rural and isolated, Faithful Place is urban and crowded, and Frank, a genuine self-made man, seems anything but fragile.
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Trump has consistently portrayed himself as a self-made man who was helped out by a "small" $225 million loan from his father.
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Trump also, despite the self-made man mythology he sometimes alludes to, belongs to a family that has been prosperous for three generations.
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He's also in his early 2490s, reasonably handsome, and genuinely a self-made man rather than someone who got by on loans from daddy.
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He is the definition of a self-made man, overcoming his limited resources and building two fortunes, once in Vietnam and again in America.
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Another dungheap awaits his landing; the dung is all his; when he plunges into it he will be, at last, a self-made man.
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Ahdaf Soueif, an Egyptian novelist, said Ali's videos had struck a chord because he casts himself as a self-made man with a modest background.
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Though from 1822 five generations had built a Bolloré bible-and-cigarette-paper concern in Brittany, Vincent is what the French call un self-made man.
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The top spot once again went to Abraham Lincoln — the quintessential self-made man who saved the Union, emancipated the slaves, and launched the Transcontinental Railroad.
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "He claims he was a self-made man, and I guess he is — he seems to have made up his very own tax laws.
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Mr. Modi is a powerful orator, promoting his narrative as a self-made man who rose to the top from modest beginnings as a tea seller.
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Frederick's spurning of the family business helped fuel the disappointment that Fred Chase Koch, a self-made man and rugged individualist, felt toward his oldest son.
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This is all the more relevant at a time when the political implications of unbridled individualism, represented by capitalism's self-made man, have never been clearer.
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He presents himself as a self-made man who has succeeded on his own merits, and skirts around the financial support he received from his father.
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Fillmore was a stolid, self-made man who would in time alienate slavery opponents and leave his party in disarray, earning his place among the worst presidents.
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A major investigation by the New York Times just revealed that U.S. President Donald Trump is very much not the "self-made" man he has claimed to be.
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A Harvard dropout and self-made man, Gates built his fortune and changed the world as a pioneer of the computer age and the co-founder of Microsoft.
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He's a self-made man who took his gift of making things with his hands and used it to build houses all over Boone County, including his own.
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As I lay writhing, watching Tomas take command, I found myself filled with gratitude for this self-made man who'd built a life for himself in this foreign place.
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The actor, who comes from a modest background in Punjab and says he is a self-made man, is now also breaking barriers by acting in a Pakistani film.
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President Barack Obama had spoken about unearned advantage and the myth of the self-made man, which led the GOP to make "We Built It" its national convention refrain.
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As a self-made man, an entrepreneur and three-term mayor of the biggest city in America, Bloomberg has proved himself to be an effective leader and problem solver.
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No longer the scrappy, self-made man, Trump is being reincarnated in real time as the chosen son, with he and his father acting as partners in wealth creation.
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He is a self-made man who came to his beloved "Colly-fornia" in the 1960s (I wasn't born yet — yay me!) with just a few dollars in his pocket.
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Perhaps they say, hey, maybe I don't have a nice condo and six-figure job SOLELY because I pulled myself up by my bootstraps as a completely self-made man.
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Interestingly, experimental evidence suggests that something as simple as pointing out that Trump inherited his wealth rather than being a self-made man alters voters' perceptions of him a great deal.
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On the other hand, Lehmann suggests, as Weber did, that the Puritans were the prophets of the self-made man, the tricky Yankee trader unbound by custom, family, tradition or community.
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Mr. Modi is a self-made man, rising from modest beginnings through his party's Hindu nationalist wing to become the longest-serving chief minister of Gujarat, one of India's largest states.
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A self-made man, his purpose is to grant Rwanda the dignity of self-sufficiency by developing industry and reducing foreign aid, a goal toward which he has made considerable progress.
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What should count as a main theme is not that Trump is not a self-made man, but rather that he is a man made, in considerable part, on taxpayers' money.
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She doesn't have much use for Tami's developer friend (who lets her squat but turns off her power) or the owner, a self-made man who is jealous of his own players.
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Trump has called the comedian a "pig" and "a woman out of control," while O'Donnell has said the president is "not a self-made man" and frequently rails against him on Twitter.
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Africa's richest person is Aliko Dangote, a self-made man who originally earned his fortune in the cement business and has now expanded his empire to include food staples, according to Forbes.
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Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, portrays himself now as a self-made man who began life with what he has characterized as a meager $1 million advance from his father.
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Michael D'Antonio: When people ask me about Donald's wealth and whether he's a self-made man, I have to remind them that he was born into one of the wealthiest families in America.
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In his short biography Mr Moshenska successfully brings back to life a forgotten self-made man who was at the same time braggadocio and philosopher, and who seemed to live so many lives.
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A great deal of this debate has been prompted by a new book by Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute, "Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man," which was published by the libertarian Cato Institute.
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To that end, it delights in cutting from former President George W. Bush confirming that political figures do, in fact, make backroom deals to progressive darling Elizabeth Warren praising Hamilton the self-made man.
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In "Self-Made Man," a new book published by the Cato Institute, the lawyer Timothy Sandefur argues that Douglass's essential legacy lies in his advocacy of liberty, individualism and private property and free enterprise.
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Mr Trump sees himself as a largely self-made man whose global career qualifies him to be president: "Nobody in the history of the presidency has been nearly as successful as I have," he says.
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Mr. Franco isn't making fun of his character, at least not entirely; rather, he's put distance into the mix, as if to point out that Tommy is very much a self-made man, a construction.
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I was in France at the time, and I was repeatedly asked about the comment, which, it was thought, might undermine Macron's political miracle as a self-made man, at least among some conservative voters.
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Much of the outrage generated by the reporting on the Trump family's finances has focused on tax evasion, which is immense and possibly criminal, and on the myth that Mr. Trump is a self-made man.
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He and his team had turned Mr Yanukovych, whose nickname during his short stints in prison when young had been kham, or "thug", from a Kremlin-backed bully into a self-made man with blue-collar roots.
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A 2016 New York Times obituary said he was a self-made man who built a business empire that included a family vineyard, importing Lowenbrau beer to New York state and starting a distribution network for other beers.
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It exposed definitively that Donald Trump is not the self-made man that he claims, and that he and his siblings received more than $1 billion from the real power broker of the family, Fred Trump, Donald's father.
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Branding is what she learned from her father, President Donald Trump, who got a cool $60.7 million loan from his own dad (about $140 million in today's dollars) but spent his entire life building a false "self-made man" narrative.
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Indeed, in Chan's case, the myth of the self-made man, predicated on hard work and sacrifice, is taken to its extreme, for the thing he willingly sacrifices over and over again, year in and year out, is his body.
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J'étais en France à ce moment-là, et on m'interrogea avec insistance sur cette déclaration qui risquait de coûter au candidat à la présidence, en tout cas aux yeux d'un certain électorat de droite, son miracle de self-made-man politique.
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The son of a chicken and soybean farmer who put himself through college, Mr. Eure sees his father as a parallel to Mr. Trump, whose oft-pushed narrative is that he is a self-made man — nevermind that the president's story is false.
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In the rush to summarize and understand, the main takeaway in the media seems to be that the Times story is confirmation that Donald J. Trump is not, indeed, a self-made man, contrary to the story the President likes to tell.
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"People are trying to adapt, survive and succeed in a social, political and economic environment that promotes the 'self-made' man or woman," and he believes his findings could reduce some of the pressure and negativity that comes with being seen as a narcissist.
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He forged a livelihood with his voice and pen, but fundamentally was not a self-made man as he painted himself in a famous speech, an image through which modern conservatives and libertarians have adopted him as a proponent of their brand of individualism.
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Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) Let's face it — if Littlefinger and Olenna Tyrell, the status-seeking self-made man and the matriarch of one of the richest noble families, hadn't conspired to poison Joffrey at his own wedding, he would be tormenting everyone in sight.
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" NIXON: "Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man," by Garry Wills "It is no small undertaking to write about the intellectual history of the United States, provide an analysis of modern politics, and keep track of where Richard Nixon fits into it all.
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Between the Tito's and Leo's and loving lounging by a pool instead of a beach, this guy is right up my alley…not to mention he is also a modest self-made man who claims to be a computer nerd…just what I was looking for!
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Donald Trump Jr., patron saint of the self-made man, picked himself up by his bootstraps and wrote a New York Times best-selling book with absolutely no help at all — unless you count a small $100,000 purchase from his dad's pals at the Republican National Committee.
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Both of the political sides, so far as I am concerned, have to accept responsibility for the emergence of Donald Trump, the autonomous man, the self-made man, economically "free" and sexually liberated, responsible only to himself, starting from scratch and inventing his own way of doing things.
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"As a self-made man, a great salesperson, a man of business and a billionaire, he has no match in the political landscape in Italy," Filia said, highlighting that this is not to express any political opinion, but rather to address what the roots of his traction might be.
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One of the central American myths, for better or for worse, is that of the self-made man — and so when we look at a real estate empire, listen to a speech, or read an essay, our reaction is determined, in large part, by who had a hand in it.
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A self-made man who couldn't draw on an inheritance or family support, Forbes had tired of Trotter's dramatic anti-Washington protests (one especially raucous episode, known as the Boston Riot, involved cayenne pepper sprinkled on the dais) and his willingness to court the occasional libel suit with his outrageous insults.
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Just as Jefferson's republican championing of the people's liberties depended upon his acceptance of a permanent underclass of slave laborers, so does Hamilton's commitment to the success of the entrepreneurial self-made man depend upon his assumption that there would be a deferential political underclass to do the heavy work.
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A host of characters orbit around the two figures of mother and son, and we occasionally zoom in on them, getting their perspective — including Elliot, Rhett's artist dad and Pearl's ex-husband; and Pearl's gullible boss, Carter, a self-made man who is portrayed as someone living a kind of duped and diluted life.
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Far from being a self-made man who built a business empire with just a tiny, $1 million loan from dad, Donald Trump is in fact the beneficiary of hundreds of millions of dollars from his father in the 1990s — gifts that were mostly heavily disguised to avoid taxes, and some of which appear to have been outright fraudulent.
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Or even to some extent the way of Donald Trump, who is white and technically a Protestant but not, not any kind of WASP, combining instead the worst of meritocratic self-deception (the rich kid with a Wharton degree posturing as a self-made man) and the worst of the populist reaction that it summons up.
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This became known as a plagiarism scandal, but obviously there would be a serious problem with making up biographical facts of your life — like when Donald Trump pretends to be a self-made man rather than a rich kid who inherited tons of money from his dad — whether or not Kinnock had ever uttered these particular phrases.
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The show makes its message clear: Only in America could "a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman " who grew up "in poverty and squalor" attain the kind of prominence he did by virtue of hard work and intellect — and, indeed, it was self-made man Alexander Hamilton who played an out-sized role in first making America great.
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Blumenthal is the author of several books, including The Clinton Wars — a mammoth, 853-page memoir of his time in the White House — The Permanent Campaign, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, and most recently A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1849, the first volume in a planned four-volume biography of Lincoln, which is scheduled to be released next April.
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Although he seemed to embody the ideal of the self-made man, my father was not terribly rah-rah about the bootstrap fantasy of the American Dream; he was too aware of how tenuous his trajectory had been, how easily his good life could have gone badly instead, how many helping hands and lucky breaks and second chances he had had along the way.
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Or, ask President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, who portrays himself as a self-made man who received only a "small loan" from his father … but in fact benefited from his father's largesse to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Read: "Remembering Alice Mayhew" The countless best sellers that Ms. Mayhew edited include John Dean's "Blind Ambition: The White House Years" (2016); Taylor Branch's "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years" (24.5); Walter Isaacson's books, including "Steve Jobs" (19873) and "Leonardo da Vinci" (21987); David Brooks's "On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense" (22008), an examination of contemporary American society; Diane McWhorter's Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights history, "Carry Me Home" (22009); and the first volumes of Sidney Blumenthal's political biography of Abraham Lincoln, beginning with "A Self-Made Man" (2016).
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