Quotes About Ambition

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you to do what you want to do.

If I was offered a Salman Khan or a Shah Rukh Khan film, I would have signed it. No one says no to that.

When I had signed my first film, I had not even told my family about it.

When I signed with the Rockets, I just kind of felt like that was my calling card.

I wanted to play in the Premier League and Bolton offered me that opportunity at that time and that was why I signed for Bolton.

Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.

In fact, I signed 'Laila Majnu' before the release of 'Poster Boyz.'

I tried my best to get my brother to get signed by Golden Boy and all his higher-ups, but I don't know, I don't know what they was looking for or what they was looking into. They didn't do it.

Prior to getting back into college, I had lots of free time, so I was like, ahhh, I've always wanted a master's, let's go do it. As soon as I signed up, I had no time.

I felt shaky, then 'Hungama' worked, and I signed films left, right and centre to kill my insecurity.

I always thought when I was 22 something bomb was gonna happen, then when I was 22, System started blowing up in like '96. Not blowing up really, but I started putting it into fruition. '96 is when people started noticing us, then '97 was when we got signed.

You should sign a movie you want to be part of, which is why I signed 'Mubarakan.'

My dream is to get signed.

A lot of guys don't have to compete. They can get signed to a massive contract and they can say 'Hey I'm good.'

I never really thought about becoming the all-time top goalscorer. Because when I first signed for West Ham, I was just trying to get a game.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.

Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.

There's a significant difference between greed and hunger. When you're greedy, you just want things. That's your only need. But when you're hungry for things, it's a mixture of need and want, which is more logical to me.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he'd said to me, 'We're also going to sign someone who's won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,' I would have thought twice before signing.

In 2010 I had signed three big banner films with actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Arjun Rampal. Directors like Ken Ghosh, Bela Bhansali signed me and I had got my signing amounts but those films did not take off at all.