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• This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Humor, Voice

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• The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

  Barbara Walters

  Marriage, Girl, Sleep

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• I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

  Nicole Appleton

  Art, Want, Path

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• Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

  Richie Sambora

  Believe, Eye, Goal

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Writing, Hair

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• Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

  Austin Kleon

  Looks, World, Curious

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.19, Workman Publishing

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• I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

  John H. Johnson

  Mean, Vision, Use

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• Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

  Bobbi Brown

  Inspiring, Graduation, Jobs

  "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.

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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

  Germaine Greer

  Inspiring, Real, Men

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• If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

  Oil, Up Early, Pay

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• Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.45, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Two, Feet

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• Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, America, Class

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

  Melanne Verveer

  Country, People, Half

  "Despite Arab Spring, women's rights tenuous, Senate panel told" by Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. November 3, 2011.

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• ..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Jobs, Children

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• Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.

  Dennis Merzel

  Fall, Frustrated, Trying

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (2001). “24/7 Dharma: Impermanence, No-Self, Nirvana”, Journey Editions

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'
  Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Discipline, Long

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

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• The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

  Robert Orben

  Writing, Secret, Comedy

  "Life in the Laugh Factory" by Henry Allen, The Washington Post, p. B1, January 4, 1979.

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• Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  People, Trying, Research

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• If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, World, Want

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.160, Vintage

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• Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  Imagination, Alcohol, Sparks

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• in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Stars, Fighting, Thinking

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Flash Fire”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• We've got some fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well, or are we going to build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?

  Barack Obama

  Country, Hard Work, Choices

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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