Mitch Pileggi Quotes

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

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

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.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.

When you're smaller, you kind of learn how to do other things. You have to work a little bit harder.

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

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.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.