What is "go-getter"

Usage examples of "go-getter".

His insurance business was his own, in so far as any man's business is his own when he is obliged perpetually to show himself alert and a go-getter in the eyes of the giant companies which are his real masters.

But he had built it up on his personality, which was, as he assured me I could see, that of a go-getter and a man fated for great achievement.

He had left the business in the hands of his Number Two, who was a good fellow in his way, but lacked originality, was not innovative, was in fact just the sort of man a go-getter chooses for his Number Two because he presents no challenge.

He took boxes from her hand, put them on the rack, his face closed, thinking of someone else, maybe, some woman from the past who'd left him for a good-looking go-getter like Kyler.

Her father's friends in Philadelphia and Washington had spoken of him as a go-getter, a man who got things done.

Thus the keen, gung-ho go-getter looks of Edwina's father were nicely softened by her mother's influence, leaving their daughter looking less like a hawk and more like a lamb.

Wholesome -- constructive -- non-morbid -- civic-minded -- domestic -- (I forgot to mention the radio) normal -- that's the sort of go-getter that ought to go in for dogs.

Big business men, with whom Ham had come in contact, had always been go-getters with plenty of courage.

And we'll need bright young go-getters like you, my boy, to make things hum.

Vigorously mongrel, America is a land with success in its ozone, a new world for the go-getters and new-broomers, a land where fortune grins and makes the triple-ring sign.

All the night people – the drinkers, the ravers, the screamers – have finally gone home to bed but the day people – the joggers, the go-getters, the early worms earning six figures a year – have yet to stir.