My father started with ...

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
 Tamara Ecclestone

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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.

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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
 Tamara Ecclestone
You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
 Tamara Ecclestone
Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.
 Tamara Ecclestone
My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
 Tamara Ecclestone
My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.
 Tamara Ecclestone