Gina Rinehart Quotes

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I had to believe in myself from quite a young age. And I had to grow up pretty early.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

I learned a lot from other people, and was inspired by what they did, but I didn't copy anyone. I put many different blocks together to become what I am. I don't know if that would have happened if everything was handed to me on a plate.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.

Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

My father felt that children should make their own way.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out for yourself.

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!