Talk to me about what "bootstrap" was supposed to initially mean. It was a joke ... because you can't really pull yourself up by your bootstraps. "The Horatio Alger story is not quite what ...

I do not want to hear ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps, work 90 hours a week.' That's not the goal, guys! That should not be our standard." The average American would have how much in their ...

Brown, who recently earned an Emmy for his work in NBC’s This Is Us, has a message for those who believe that people need to merely ‘pull themselves up by your own bootstraps’ philosophy.