Quotes About Ambition

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

I am the hardest working director.

We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one's ability to realize one's dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

I wouldn't attribute everything to luck. I think I am very hardworking, and nothing discounts hard work for anything.

People want to work with you because you're hardworking.

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

I was always a funny person. I thought I would play some good ball, and the Harlem Globetrotters would see me, and that would be it - fame.

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.

We decided when we were building Big Machine that we wanted to be a Harley or a Ferrari.

When I was 13, I had ambitions to act and, in 1984, filmed a drama called 'The Price'. I played the daughter of brilliant actress Harriet Walter.

I applied to come to Harvard and they didn't accept me.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

If I went to any other college, I probably would have been pre-med. But I felt like I had freedom to do what I wanted to do at Harvard.

I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.