Quotes About Success

My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade education from the south.

I come from the bottom of the social ladder and now I have a good life.

I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

I loved school, was an exceptional student, and found a passion for math and science that led me to Vanderbilt University, where I discovered the world of electrical engineering. I did well in college, loved the work I was doing, and soon found myself climbing the corporate ladder after graduation. I was one of the lucky ones.

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

If you get better educated, you might yourself higher up the ladder, but the ladder will still be there.

I appreciate everything. I built my career from very humble beginnings. Every job I've had, every next rung on the ladder, I appreciate because I know where it started - I started doing Pac-Man vitamin commercials.

I always hoped I'd get a chance to prove myself at the top level because I believed I could do it, but making your way up the football ladder is very tough.

I'm lucky in that the media is much more freelancey. So I didn't have that pressure that lots of people have if you jump off the ladder, then you get left behind.

Not many people leave a job where they have fallen short and land another one higher up the ladder. Nice work if you can get it.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

The fact that 'Ladies Night' became such a huge success, it's nothing but amazing.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

I got my first film, 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl,' easily.

I'm convinced that if my goal hadn't been to be in the absolute best category I can, I would not have been able to be for 26 years the number one in the ladies' category.