Petropolis group, the second largest brewery and beverage company in Brazil owned by self made man Walter Faria, has been very successful with TNT brand, growing 262% in three years and reaching sales of 60 million cans in 2011.
Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.
He is the classic self-made man, having started 40 years ago when a building boom led to a shortage of window frames.
Wang was thin and angular, with the bearing of a self-made man.
The 86-year-old Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant, father of ten, and self-made man, ranks as the 347th richest man in the world.
There is no such thing as a self-made man.
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That sort of de haut en bas can get out of hand of course: one self-made man, Michael Heseltine, has been sneered at because he bought his own furniture rather than inheriting it.
In the last six months there have been natural disasters of epic proportion, but the worst disasters are man-made and causing self inflicted wounds.
Imagine a truly artificial, man-made heart, one that is completely self-contained and is able to adapt itself automatically to the body's needs--whether taking a nap or running for a bus.
Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.
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His over confident tone of voice, evident sense of self superiority, and the gleaming cheap smile he had seen only once, made the man intolerable.
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