Ambitious Quote by Paul Graham Download Open image “For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.” — Paul Graham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambitious Corporate Ladder Most Obsolete People Young Young people
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time. — David Duffield Copy Share Image
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. — Larry Page Copy Share Image
“You are in the hands of experts who have researched and perfected a system of corporate ladder climbing that, until recently, no one has… — Martin Fossum Copy Share Image
“I think as long as humans don’t solve this human nature trait of sort of settling into a world-view after a while, there will… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“What is sad is the fact that this entire growing industry has been developed around a system of education that is basically obsolete, and one that no longer serves the needs of the children growing up to face the world of the twenty-first century. It is sobering to consider the unsettling effect that the not-so-gradual dismantling of this educational system… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share
People actually aren't moving on from companies much more quickly than in the past, but there's a perception that they do, so companies are… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
“Corporations that do a better-than-average job of developing leaders put an emphasis on creating challenging opportunities for relatively young employees.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete. — Cher Copy Share
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid I was constantly being told to look at things from someone else’s point of view. What this always meant… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers. — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of Americanness. It is no accident that Silicon Valley… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies. — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“It’s easier to get people to fight for an idea. And whichever side wins, their ideas will also be considered to have triumphed, as… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
“A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple weeks. A mediocre programmer over the same… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before,… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
I want my squad to be confident, ambitious. They have to believe in big things and we have to set targets internally. — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to… — Chris Kirubi Copy Share Image
I am ambitious to do more than what has been offered me. I want to be the best in whatever career I choose and… — Uday Chopra Copy Share Image
There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard work ethic… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
