Also Martha Stewart built her empire. She was middle class, but she built it. Did not inherit, did not get from her husband.

No, they are not. BUT the product already existed. She just put her name on it and hiked the price up. OF COURSE the private label company says that she is hands on. What benefit would they get if they said she wasn’t??? Most people who put their names on pro

And we know that Rob does virtually nothing with the sock business. It’s all done for him and was all set up for him by his mother. Unlike his sisters, he seems to be a liability if she were to push him into being the public face of the company, so she doesn’t. 

Kylie (or more precisely, her mother) also has followed the standard Kardashian trick of announcing her new products have sold out because she deliberately makes only limited production runs. That whips up the frenzy for them in her very young and gullible target audience and also maintains the artificially high price.

I hate when people don’t think how much of an advantage it is. Outside of the connections she has, it’s the money. If an unwed, pregnant 19 year old, that pretty much got a GED, no college, no experience in the industry or knowledge, walked into a bank and asked for a loan to start her business. A business that sells…

Tory Birch comes from a “wealthy investor” father, and Meg Whitman was born and raised in a wealthy part of New York state, to a father who ran a financial advisory firm. So they were at least very upper class, if not multi-millionaires.

Yep. People aren’t always that kind to Oprah’s legacy (I mean, obviously she has plenty of fans but the detractors are there as well) but unlike most so-called self-made people she actually overcame enormous odds - abject poverty, sexual abuse, navigating the world as a black woman - to become one of the most…

They never recognize how much it helps to have that net under you. George W. Bush or Trump can go bankrupt time after time because daddy or daddy’s friends will be there to bail them out. If you or I fail we’re on the streets. That puts a limit on the old entrepreneurial spirit. 

oh god, everything about this woman was made by someone else: Face, tits, ass, image, reputation.

She doesn’t own it, she has a licensing deal.

Oprah is absolutely the definition of self-made. 

Not only was she born into wealth, she was born to someone who was an incredibly successful businesswoman, with parents and siblings with a shit ton of connections to the business, fashion, and beauty world. Literally everything she needed in order to make her business a success, she had. What would be incredible…

All she did - literally all she did - was sign a licensing royalty contract with Colourpop for a tube of lip gloss, after getting surgery to enhance her lips, and imply the kits were responsible. That’s it!She signed her name to the makeup they already produced. That’s the extent of her involvement.

Isn’t it funny how Step #1 in all of these success stories is to be born to wealthy parents? You’d almost think that was an advantage or something. 

The idea that this girl is “self-made” is insulting. Fuck that.

Everything about DJTJr. reeks of idiocy and desperation.

My understanding is that she violated hygiene protocols in the dancing videos. Like she or her staff touched their bodies, faces, and/or other non-sterile items with their gloves on and then proceeded to operate.

One of the most difficult things to teach young doctors, is that the social privilege and respect one obtains from assuming the role of healer, comes with the corollary of social expectations of propriety and respect for those who have put their trust, and indeed their lives, in your hands. You don’t suddenly turn…

They were going to lose either way. Also, Tristan Thompson is shitty at basketball.

Huh. Hey, remember the time Michelle Obama suggested eating a vegetable once in a while, and people started rioting in the streets?