What does pull the ladder up after oneself mean?

pull the ladder up after oneself

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

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"“There are a lot of people who have achieved success, but then pulled the ladder up after them,” [John M.] Connors added."
"Basically if you are on the up, don't pull the ladder up after you!"
"It is un-American to pull the ladder up after you; the American way is to pass it down to the next person, and silence is complicity when it comes to this."

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