Quotes About Ambition

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans—I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before…. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Try to firm up happiness future

We should see big dreams because it will encourage us to achieve.

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money.