Get Ahead Quotes - Page 7

• How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, "Here's what it takes to succeed. Here's the sacrifices you need to make to be able to get ahead. Here's how we support each other. Here's how we look out for each other."

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Sacrifice, Support

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.

  Hillary Clinton

  Struggle, Mean, Class

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• [Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

  Steven Tyler

  Good Night, Giving, World

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• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  Ursula Burns

  Team, Hard Work, Thinking

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• 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 yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.

  Carl Holmes

  Ideas, Yesterday, Giving

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• Sometimes you start a little further back from the starting line. And you're going to have to work a little bit harder, and push it faster to get to the finish. I'm willing to put in the work, to compensate for other things, to get ahead, to get to where I want to be.

  Nick Newell

  Mma, Lines, Want

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• With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.

  Jared Bernstein

  Strong, Wages, Way

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• Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Patience, Reaching, Here And Now

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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• In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Order, Skills

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• You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

  Orrin Woodward

  Behinds

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2017

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• I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

  Zachary Quinto

  Opportunity, Thinking, Matter

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• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  Chuck Hagel

  Alliances, Agility, Problem

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• Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Treasure, Way

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, Differences

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Hard Work, Secret, Finding Yourself

  "Nickel and Dimed". Book by Barbara Ehrenreich, progressive.org. January 1, 2010.

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• Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

  Charlie Munger

  Steps

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• America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are not going to be happy campers. If you're stuck on the bottom and there just isn't much churning in society and you're stuck there through your adulthood, that's not a nice life to look forward to.

  Thomas B. Edsall

  Nice, Thinking, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.

  Will Smith

  Games, Goal, Focus

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• America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a problem--particularly when you've got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America--you see, that saddle's going to jump now and then and it pricks.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Children, America, Self

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• I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

  Ryan Guzman

  Thinking, Always Thinking, Ifs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

  Bernie Sanders

  Hard Work, Class, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Advice

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

  Abbie Hoffman

  College, Race, Two

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse, Welfare

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