A Quote by Stephen A. Smith

I climbed up this business. — © Stephen A. Smith
I climbed up this business.
The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.
I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.
In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.
In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.
If you despise the mountains you have climbed, you are not welcomed by the mountains you have not yet climbed!
I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.
You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.
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