Quotes About Ambition

Mediocrity is but a by-product of the dispassionate

La dagaalanka rabitaanka naftu, waa furaha guusha ardayga.

Unless you become a big picture thinker, you will always stay where you are.

Some want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Some make it happen.

Unii vor ca un lucru sa se intample. Altii isi doresc ca lucrul sa se intample. Iar altii il fac sa se intample.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Get up, go out into the world, and do awesome shit.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it, waiting until things are perfect, wringing your hands, dithering and hesitating and slowly twisting your panties into a perfect little fisherman's knot. Or you can get up off your lazy fucking ass and do something. What's the worst that can happen?

People say never stand in the shadows of great men. Stand on their shoulders. I say, no: stand in their shadow, kick their ass, and tell them to get out of the way.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

They lived their lives as if their sights were set on the clouds beyond the hill they were climbing.

In one such rented attic room was a young man who made his living selling fish. Every morning he would get up before the crack of dawn and carry his tin box to the riverbank, where he bought his goods. He worked furiously for an entire month, and then at the end of the month he put on his finest clothes and went out to buy a prostitute—as if that made it all worthwhile.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

The World Is Yours

Success in business inflates the egos of top management.

she had that teacher who got her into her poetry. She even talked about applying to a writing program. But then it became clear that it was all just a crush on an older man. It was always about men for her.

It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

If you can't paint a man falling from a five story building before he hits the ground, you will never make a monumental painting.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.