0 rich because you have earned a lot of money yourself -- добившийся успеха своими силами
a self-made millionaire
Nowhere on that earth is there a self-made man.
However, when it comes to a choice between the self-made man and those who inherit their wealth, they help those who inherit their wealth.
He was every inch a self-made man, very positive in his beliefs, in himself and his opinions, very unwilling to listen to arguments of others.
Finally, self-made materials motivate children.
Most of the editors of these periodicals were self-made men; having educated themselves out of obscurity, they were anxious to exhort their fellows to do the same.
Of working-class background and trained as a typographer, he was the quintessential self-made intellectual, known as the most philosophical of proletarians and the most proletarian of philosophers.
According to these texts, the successful achievement of middle-class manhood, represented by the figure of the ' ' self-made man, ' ' rested on the careful manipulation and presentation of one's own inner life.
His position as the archetypal self-made tory was his greatest justification for hierarchy and inequality.
