Quotes About Ambition

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

I'm not one of those people who is scared, like, 'Ooooh, I'm going to burn out.'

I plan on having a long career. I don't want to burn out.

I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.

I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and we realized that he or I could do a lot better.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

I went to business school, because I thought that's where you had to go if you wanted to get rich.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

I have always been clear about what I wanted to do and who I wanted to dress. However, you need that business sense to help direct your talent. Because at the end of the day, you are selling clothes, and that is the reality which we live in.

I find the business world hard.

You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

I'm a true businessman.

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

I'm a successful businessman.

I'm a businessman, that's all.

What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.