Quotes About Ambition

I didn't recognize but now know to be Liar's Poker.

any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

The Indian engineers had the lust for the kill that Clark loved. They were ferociously, recklessly competitive.

Clark couldn't stand the idea of anyone's working for him without having the chance to accumulate a bit of wealth.

he needed them to translate his extraordinary ambition into the ordinary language understood by corporate America.

Clark knew that the time would come to put a smiley corporate face on his ferocious ambition.

It was clear what had happened," he later said. "This company started out with great ambitions, and then the ambition got smaller and smaller. I just took it back to Jim's original vision.

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The future is hungry and unkind. It'll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It's hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

I am a petty god at the moment. You will find me more lordly and benign when I achieve the position of a greater god.

The miserable frequently believe that possession of power for its own sake is what has made others more content. They grab such power in many different ways and remain baffled as to why they are just as miserable as they were to begin with.

Fenelon-Barnes wanted the fossil trees he discovered to bear his name. He even wanted a tribe to take his name, and spent a year on the negotiations. Then Bauchan outdid him, having a type of sand dune named after him. But I wanted to erase my name and the place I had come from. By the time war arrived, after ten years in the desert, it was easy for me to slip across borders, not to belong to anyone, to any nation.

Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.

Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand.

I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The only sin is mediocrity.

I love New York. You want to find out if you're any good? Try New York. Who sang that? Frank Sinatra? If you make it here, you can make it anywhere.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always believed in doing my best, that one should aspire to be No. 1.

I've believed in myself since day one.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.