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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. -- Dick Armey
You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead. -- Irene Rosenfeld
Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead! -- Zig Ziglar
Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead. -- Helen Fisher
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures. -- Elaine Stritch
Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. -- Henry Ford
There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it. -- W. C. Fields
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. -- Lou Holtz
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. -- E. Joseph Cossman
You can't get ahead while getting even. -- Dick Armey
The way to get ahead is to start now. -- William Feather
Everyone has a head but not everyone get ahead -- Saji Ijiyemi
Do people get moral when they don't get ahead? -- Ruth Gordon
You can never get ahead by trying to get even. -- Zig Ziglar
You won't get ahead until you get off your behind. -- Orrin Woodward
I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart! -- Barbara Walters
You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people. -- Willie Nelson
What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy. -- Wendell Willkie
Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts. -- Charlie Munger
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody. -- Cullen Hightower
Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you. -- Paul Schrader
I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong. -- S. E. Kiser
Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead. -- Bonnie Marcus
No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind -- Melanne Verveer
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom. -- Larry Ellison
We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves. -- Hugh B. Brown
As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you. -- John C. Maxwell
It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them. -- John C. Maxwell
A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada. -- Preston Manning
Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead. -- Bonnie Marcus
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be. -- Bart Decrem
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book. -- Fran Lebowitz
I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. I'm taking it one game at a time. -- Dontrelle Willis
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. -- Eric Hoffer
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it. -- Robert Orben
I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead. -- Drake
I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name. -- Edward Kennedy
The law, he continued, is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead -- Walter Mosley
I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it. -- Ryan Guzman
If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil. -- J. Paul Getty
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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
Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead. -- Tim Huelskamp
Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead. -- Tahir Shah
Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. -- Tina Brown
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
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics. -- Gene Simmons
Like most girls, I constantly have to watch my weight, because if I didn't my curves would get ahead of me. -- Amber Heard
You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way. -- Star Jones
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead. -- Randy Harrison
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. -- Walter Winchell
Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why -- James Arthur Ray
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. -- Azim Premji
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources. -- Shelby Lynne
Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life. --
The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way. -- Umair Haque
You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. -- Hillary Clinton
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. -- Harry S. Truman
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn. -- Paul Clitheroe
I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing. -- David Cunliffe
In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead. -- Constance Zimmer
I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing. -- David Cunliffe
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
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
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
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If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you. -- Victoria Osteen
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. -- Robert Shea
If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can. -- Ron Johnson
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
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report. -- Dave Barry
In a world of pushing, shoving, striving to get ahead at all costs people; to those who knew him well, John Mann was a breath of fresh air. -- Matt Micros
More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. -- Marco Rubio
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will. -- Bill Gates
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
We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead. -- William Feather
Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be. -- Hugh B. Brown
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you. -- Wayne Dyer
I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves. -- Rachel Roy
..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
I do have investments, investments in new jobs, investments in education, skill training, and the opportunities for people to get ahead and stay ahead. That's the kind of approach that will work. -- Hillary Clinton
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero. -- Danny Strong
There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project. -- Kenny Chesney
You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing? -- Dale Carnegie
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
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
We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom. -- Larry Ellison
It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. -- Jacob Hacker
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. -- Barbara Mikulski
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
Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. -- Barbara Mikulski
It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best. -- James Surowiecki
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
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead. -- George Gilder
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
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
I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world. -- Daniel Greenberg
Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself. -- Julia Stiles
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing. -- Arthur Golden
Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow. -- Ron Brown
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited. -- William Feather
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
I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans. -- Leo Santa Cruz
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
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run . -- Emmylou Harris
The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things. -- Michelle Fairley
We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can't walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem. -- Joyce Meyer
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition -- Bruce Lee
It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. I'm not pretty! -- Kellan Lutz
Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead. -- Buzz Aldrin
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
Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and going to work, preparing, using our ambition, and, in that process, some people earned more and earned it sooner than others. -- Rush Limbaugh
When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer. -- Jeff Bezos
Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed. -- Edward Snowden
The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers? -- James Adams
We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right. -- Joseph Lowery

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