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