You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. This idea of service in business is the biggest guarantee of success that any man can have. It is the product that pays wages.