“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
#832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
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American actress and sex symbol 1893–1980Related quotes

“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
Commencement Speech at University of Southern California http://graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0067-schwarzenegger.htm (May 2009).
2000s

New York Times, 2001 http://www.animalrights.net/quotes.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/233771_robert23.html.
2001

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”