Quotes About Ambition

I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

Greed is the worst thing.

The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.

Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

One thing which keeps me apart is that I have got guts. I may have Rs 1,000 in my bank but if I think the deal is worth a crore - I will do it.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

From my perspective, as an entrepreneur, one is wired to take risks. You, of course, need to be smart and take calculated risks, and then do all you can to make it worth the risk.

I don't think anyone's worth $100 million if Michael Jordan wasn't, but hey, that's what Abe Pollin thought I was worth, and if someone puts $100 million in front of you, you're gonna take it, too.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

I am worth something and I will be big.

I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.