“Some people have found that health is more valuable than wealth. Climbing the ladder of self-interest.”

“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

“A lot of people try to boil down creation to just one thing and "what are you gonna do next" as if there's always a ladder to climb and it's like, the ladder is what you make for yourself, right?”

Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality

“The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

“Beware
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

“To go beyond reason we have to climb up the ladder of reason and go to the top of it. This will not upset reason as it is interested only in assembling the facts, whatever they might be. Reason is an ever-loyal tool; imagination an ever-failing fool.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“One wife is justified to the common men. But the higher you climb the ladder of power and success, the more women you'll meet along the way.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“But science is permitted because this wisdom is like a ladder to climb to the Torah wisdom.”

Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512–1609) Czech rabbi