This relationship is not primarily a product of individual experience, effort, and luck despite the rags-to-riches myths that pervade the popular imagination.
His biography charts his rags-to-riches career and the role of money in the making and breaking of many friendships.
The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer.
Contemporary writers also turned away from writing rags-to-riches plots.
He inspires the all-female audience with his rags-to-riches story and anti-alcohol rhetoric.
She felt listeners' hearing her rags-to-riches story might inspire them to pursue their dreams.
To some, he was a charming conversationalist who was fond of a good joke and who enjoyed recounting tales of his rags-to-riches life.
Though the story is essentially rags-to-riches-to rags it is a heart-warming story with a bitter-sweet ending and plenty of humour on the way.
