Self-Sustenance Quotes

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

[Capitalism] has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

I think I'm still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment …. The welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative.

Tell the people not to depend on me anymore.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves

We're all in this alone.

I don't tend to get lonely as there are so many things to do.

I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I don't need government to be successful.

I'm very independent.