Climbing The Ladder Quotes

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

I work very slowly. It's like building a ladder, where you're building your own ladder rung by rung, and you're climbing the ladder. It's not the best way to build a ladder, but I don't know any other way.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.