It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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.
For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.