Possible Clues:

• Successful on one's own
• Like some billionaires
• Small fairy and raunchy Dame being successful by their own effort
• Such a man requiring d__ females? Apparently not
• Endurance and strength
• This man created his own success
• Having risen from poverty I left Masefield floundering
• Fed meals cooked by one's unaided efforts
• Not born into money, as some billionaires
• Like some successes