Quotes About Ambition

Initiative = Happiness

most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. Go. Switch. Challenge yourself; get yourself a raise and a promotion. You owe it to your career and your skills.

Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of. Organizations settle too. For good enough instead of best in the world. If you're not going to put in the effort to be my best possible choice, why bother?

Quitting the projects that don't go anywhere is essential if you want to stick out the right ones. You don't have the time or the passion or the resources to be the best in the world at both. Quitting

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. Go. Switch. Challenge yourself; get yourself a raise and a promotion. You owe it to your career and your skills. If

Great jobs, world-class jobs, jobs people kill for—those jobs don't get filled by people e-mailing in résumés. Google

No, the reason that most of them didn't have a chance is that somewhere along the way they quit. They didn't quit high school or college or law school. Instead, they quit in their quest to be the best in the world because the cost just seemed too high.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

The second reason there are such tremendous benefits to being number one is a little more subtle. Being at the top matters because there's room at the top for only a few.

Doug has hit a plateau. He's not going to be challenged, pushed, or promoted to president. Doug, regardless of what he could actually accomplish, has stopped evolving—at least in the eyes of the people who matter.

on our way to becoming the person we seek to be.

It's easier to be mediocre than it is to confront reality and quit. Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.

Hardworking, motivated people find diversification a natural outlet for their energy and drive. Diversification feels like the right thing to do.

Most of the time, if you fail to become the best in the world, it's either because you planned wrong or because you gave up before you reached your goal.

The person who leans forward the most wins the race.

It's easy to get confused in our quest to build something that matters.

The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out. If you took organic chemistry in college, you've experienced the Dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Kiasu is the Hokkien word for "the fear of being left behind" or not getting enough.

the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.

Settling is no fun. It's a malignant habit, a slippery slope that takes you to mediocrity.

Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world.