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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1778
AUTHOR: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81)
QUOTATION: I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN DISRAELI, remark to a friend after being named prime minister.—Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and His Day, 2d ed., p. 52 (1891).
SUBJECTS: Success