The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill
I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.
Robert Kiyosaki
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
Bum Phillips
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar