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«You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.»
Author: Dick Armey | Keywords: getting even, get ahead
«Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves»
Author: E. Joseph Cossman | About: Business, Relationships | Keywords: get ahead
«Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.»
«You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.»
«Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.»
«Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.»
«It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.»
«There are only two real ways to get ahead today -- sell liquor or drink it.»
Author: W. C. Fields (Actor, Comic) | Keywords: get ahead, liquor, liquors, sell
«The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.»