Napoleon Hill Quotes

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

I was a poor kid. I came from nothing. We didn't have any money; a lot of times we didn't have any food, and now, all of a sudden, I'm a superhero in a Marvel movie? Talk about the American dream, man - I'm living it.

I come from humble beginnings myself.

When Kogi started, I was dead broke, selling tacos on the street just to survive.

My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.

The American Dream - I believe in that cliche because I know what having nothing feels like.

Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.