Quotes About Ambition

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.

Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?

When women are starting out in their careers, they tend to be confident and look to aspire to leadership role and really want those positions. But then over time, as they advance, they become less confident and don't think they can attain those roles.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

The scary thing is that I sometimes think, 'Oh, I've won a Bafta. This could be the top of the precipice.'

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again.

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.

When I won the world title, I am not going to lie, it was an unbelievable feeling. It was like a weight off my shoulders, a goal I'd set myself for so long and one others had talked about. When I got there I realised how I am never satisfied and how I always want more.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Flamengo usually contact managers who have won a lot of trophies.

I want to leave PSG one day having won the Champions League. That's my biggest dream.