A Quote by Robert Reich

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

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Robert Reich
American - Economist
Born: June 24, 1946

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

Robert Fulton

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Charles A. Reich

The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.

Tammy Duckworth

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Casey Stengel

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

Maggie Stiefvater

At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.

Tammy Duckworth

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

Andy Roddick

I didn't have a life. Basically, for 40 years it was my work and my nose was to the grindstone the whole time.

Anne Murray

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

Connie Mack IV

Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.

A'Lelia Bundles

If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose.

Les Wexner

There are few things that define us as a country more distinctly than the idea of the American Dream. The idea that anyone can make it here through hard work and dedication. And that dream rests on giving people here a fair shot.

Mikie Sherrill

We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.

Sylvia Plath

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.

Napoleon Hill

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Barbra Streisand

I'm just having fun making jokes and writing books. But you see me once a year, I come on when I have a new book out, but basically, I've got my nose to the grindstone and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in life, which is make stories.

T.C. Boyle

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