Great men are like eagles, ...

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Quotes from the same author

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.