Self-made men frequently betray the defects of their creator.

-quoted in The Business History Review, Vol 35, No. 3, Autumn, 1961

[Note: This is, I believe, the only quote on this blog in which I do not have either an original source showing where GKC wrote/stated it, or at the very least a source that is somebody who was a friend of GKC in which I can be extremely confident it is accurate. So it is the one quote on this blog that it is possible it may be falsely attributed to him (though, of course, it also may be rightly attributed to him as well; I don't know]. But after coming across it, I wished to record it, albeit adding this note.]