Getting Ahead Quotes

“Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.”
― Germany Kent

“It’s not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.”
― Robert Kiyosaki

“In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Everyone has a head but not everyone get ahead”
― Saji Ijiyemi, Don't Die Sitting

“Reliving the past is saying no to the future.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“Having a head is not enough, you must get ahead”
― Saji Ijiyemi

“Yes, a senior vice president is very different from a first-time team supervisor, but in the marrow, leadership is leadership is leadership. And no matter the hierarchical levels of the leaders I studied, I found that leadership in hiding—leadership the theys couldn’t see—was perceived as leadership in absence. It”
― Damaris Patterson Price, Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are

“Just got to go make do with what you got give to you when you born.

Look like some people get so much more than others. Even get some money, which this huge world loves. But . . . I have seen sometime, in this world we live in, that most things balance out, equalize out, in the end. Yes, in the end. Cause some people take nothing and make a whole heap out of it. Just like some people take everything, another whole heap, and let it run down to nothing. Human, chile, human.”
― J. California Cooper, The Matter Is Life

“She and Bub went to live with Pop in that crowded, musty flat on Seventh Avenue. She hunted for a job with a grim persistence that was finally rewarded, for two weeks later she went to work as a hand presser in a steam laundry. It was hot. The steam was unbearable. But she forced herself to go to night school—studying shorthand and typing and filing. Every time it seemed as though she couldn't possibly summon the energy to go on with the course, she would remind herself of all the people who had got somewhere in spite of the odds against them. She would think of the Chandlers and their young friends—'It's the richest damn country in the world.'

Mrs. Chandler wrote her a long letter and Jim forwarded it to her from Jamaica. 'Lutie dear: We haven't had a decent thing to eat since you left. And Little Henry misses you so much he's almost sick—' She didn't answer it. She had more problems than Mrs. Chandler and Little Henry had and they could always find somebody to solve theirs if they paid enough.”
― Ann Petry, The Street

“Our faces portray the emotions our colleagues and bosses expect. We gladly show those that earn points and brilliantly hide those that do not. Nothing is real about it; it's business and we're supposed to feel okay about it for at least 60 hours per week. If you're lucky, you get used to it. You become highly-skilled at it until you're an invincible corporate giant -- king of a mountain that means very little in the end.”
― Penelope Przekop, Centerpieces

“A certain degree of creativity is required for upward movement, but once you hit the level you never dreamed you'd reach, the purpose and plan begins to shift. You creatively mold yourself away until you finally fit right in.”
― Penelope Przekop, Centerpieces

“Our faces portray the emotions our colleagues and bosses expect. We gladly show those that earn points and brilliantly hide those that do not. Nothing is real about it; it's business and we're supposed to feel okay about it for at least 60 hours per week. If you're lucky, you get used to it. You become highly-skilled at it until you're an invincible corporate giant -- king of a mountain that means very little in the end. - Holly Carter”
― Penelope Przekop, Centerpieces

“I can't undo what I've already done," Melina said. "But I'm not the first author to pretend to be a man just to get traction in her career. The Brontës did it. George Eliot. George Sand. J.K. Rowling."

"Maybe that's why she doesn't understand gender," Andre muttered.”
― Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name