Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

— La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Promote yourself but do not demote another.

— Salanter, Israel

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

— Taylor, Sir Henry

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

— Wilson, Woodrow T.