"Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action” is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. “Ambition is the first step on the ladder of success” is a Hallmark saying that was published in 1978. “Ambition is the first step to success!” was posted on Twitter on July 29, 2010.
“Ambition is the first step to success.The second step is action” was posted on Twitter on September 4, 2013. Authorship is unknown.
25 November 1978, Omaha (NE) World-Herald, “Charmers” comic by Hallmark, pg. 20, col. 5:
(A young boy with a snow shovel is pictured. He is knocking on a door, trying to make some money shoveling snow.—ed.)
Ambition is the first step on the ladder of success.
Google Books
For A Better Tomorrow
By Joginder Singh
New Delhi, India: Diamond Pocket Books Ltd.
2006
Pg. 159:
Identifying your ambition is the first step to any achievement.
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Ambition is the first step to success!
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Ambition is the first step to success.The second step is action.
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Ambition is the first step to Success. The second step is Action.
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Ambition is the first step to success, the second step is action
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#Ambition is the first step to #success. The second step is #action.
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8. Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action.
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“Ambition is the first step to success, the second step is action.”
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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