It Starts At The Top Quotes

#1. Change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

Gloria Steinem

#2. A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Joe Haldeman

#3. One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Franz Kafka

#4. I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Dolly Parton

#5. Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Helen Hayes

#6. A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

Emeril Lagasse

#7. The earth is round for a reason. Your minimum effort starts you at the top of the world; your maximum effort keeps you there.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#8. Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

William Safire

#9. Leadership starts at the top.

Morgan Wootten

#10. When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.

Bailey White

#11. I've never been with a man who has a piercing before. The bar goes vertically, with one silver ball resting on the sensitive underside, and the other just where the head starts on the top of his shaft.

Belle Aurora

#12. Average achievers believe that learning ends after high school and college; top achievers believe that's when it starts.

Andrea Waltz

#13. A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

Mary Kay Ash

#14. Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

George P. Bush