Jonathan Swift Quotes

What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

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.

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

There is more opportunity for a nobody to become a somebody in Washington than in the whirl-pool of New York.

I've been very successful in business and I owe it all to politics.

I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.

Having a long career with real lasting power has always been a goal.

I want to see my career evolve into limitlessness.

In 'Bigg Boss,' back-biting is inevitable. It's a part of the game, and there's nothing wrong about it.

I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

The only thing I wanted out of Indiana was a chance to win my whole career there.

You never want to be behind your team-mate at the end of the year, that's definitely always going to be my goal.

I would want to believe that every film I do turns out to be the turning point of my career.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.