Quotes About Ambition

I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.

Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

Successful people breed success.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

I really didn't think it was possible because there was really no one from my neighborhood that I knew or saw that made it successfully as a professional rapper. So it was like, OK, I don't know if its even possible.'

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

It's funny because TV wasn't something that I wanted to do. I wanted to do movies. I'd said a lot of no's to a lot of shows previously because I couldn't fathom being on a show for such a long time and only doing one thing.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

In the ghetto we didn't even know there was such a thing as a private jet.

My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

Not many know that I had done a fiction show called 'Kayaamat' for exactly one month. I also did 'Ek Thi Rajkumari,' though I don't think anyone watched the show. That was the plan - I wanted to be on TV, but in such a way that no one watched me.