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“It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps the tenth. Alternately, one may become an engineer devising precious algorithms in the cloisters of Google and its like. Otherwise, one becomes a mere employee. A coder of websites at Facebook is no one in particular. A manager at Microsoft is no one. A person (think woman) working in customer relations is a particular type of no one, banished to the bottom, as always, for having spoken directly to a non-technical human being. All these and others are ways for strivers to fall by the wayside — as the startup culture sees it — while their betters race ahead of them. Those left behind may see themselves as ordinary, even failures.”

Technology Startups Silicon Valley Venture Capital Software Development Strivers

Book:Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Source: Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

“So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.”

“Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.”

Wells May Loss Rewards Thanks Good Service Strivers

Author:Elizabeth I

“Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.”

People Thinking Happens Class Middle Depends Middle Class Ambitious Sober Planners Thinking Ahead Strivers

Author:Robert Menzies

“merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.”

People Ifs Firsts Interest Natural Class Middle Resources England Middle Class Unlimited Starting Over Natural Resources Hyper Vested Interests Strivers

Author:Charles R. Morris

“Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.”

Has Beens Country Reason America Young Successful Risk Willing Entrepreneur Immigration Reason Why Strivers

Author:Barack Obama

“Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.”

Way Might Fighting Sight Cures Climbs Dozen Buckets Syndromes Crabs Strivers

Author:Michelle Malkin

“But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.”

Littles Said Two Ends Past Illusion Rivers Weight Deeper Bored Islands Only Time Planners Devouring Strivers

Author:Roberto Bolano

“I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.”

Ifs Way Stills Science Views Stage Theory Mountain Permit Conquest Provinces Already Won Strivers

Author:Justus von Liebig

“How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.”

People Character Young Culture Honesty Morality Ethics Aspect Supposed To Be Rooted Soar Arrows Oaks Strivers

Author:David Brooks

“The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.”

People Ifs Party Capitalism Built Angry Tiny Socialism Tea Reserves Fractions Tea Party Strivers

Author:Gail Collins

“Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.”

Inspirational Believe Dream Achieve Dreamer Strivers

Author:Usher

“Down time is not the name of the game.”

Games Names Down Time Strivers

Author:Usher

“Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.”

Life Motivational Heaven Rich Creation Pure Excellence Strive Each Day Subtle Luminous Strivers

Author:Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov