Quotes About Ambition

I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.

I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

I love to challenge myself.

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

I'd love to do sitcoms. I think I'm pretty darn funny.

Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

Well," David said, breaking a fry in half and examining the fluffy insides. "He runs a fertilizer plant." Stevie looked up at him sharply. Was he making fun of her parents? A pilot and someone who ran a crap plant?

Trying is the first step to whatever comes next.

Sony-ils tous (...) criminels s'ils en avaient l'occasion, innocents seulement par impuisance, et prets a se servir du mal pour accomplir leur ambition? (...) La nature humaine est-elle si detestable, ou bien est-ce la royaute qui nous rend ainsi?

DNA, you know, is Midas' gold. Everyone who touches it goes mad

She could have lived in comfort, but I doubt if it occurred to her to try.

To succeed in sales, you need skills—not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless.

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't. The future doesn't exist. The past does.

Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.

Confidence, it's the fuel that drives the capitalist machine.

In general, only the future counted for her, and to a slight extent the present; but she had no interest at all in past experiences, like all young people.