• A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

    Alexander Graham Bell: A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
    "How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden, archive.org. 1901.