bettering oneself (verb) rise: progress in business
Detalii: to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up'
Sinonime: bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, die, expire, kick off, kick the bucket, meet one's maker, pass on, push up daisies, succumb
Antonime: decline,
drop,
fall,
slump