Dan Totheroh Quotes

Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

Some people just get what they want in the world.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

People don't rise from nothing.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

This is the essence of the American Dream - in the land of opportunity, if you have a good idea, create a solid plan, and work hard, you should be able to reinvent yourself and get ahead.

If you deserve it, go get it.

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

Nobody gave me anything.

One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'