Quotes About Ambition

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

It is supposed that power corrupts," the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "Yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.

Wanting to be a movie star....answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

Old, he included himself in his scorn for those who young want the opposite of this earth then settle for more of it.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

It's not a question of money. After you reach a certain point, money becomes unimportant. What matters is success. The sensible thing would be for me to stop now. But I can't. I have to keep aiming higher and higher just for the thrill.

I always had the belief that I could beat anyone. That's what drove me on in my career.

Sometimes your dreams come true.

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Como sempre, a guerra proporciona grandes oportunidades aos homens ambiciosos que teriam permanecido na obscuridade em tempos de paz.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Here, in the foyer of the League of Nations, Edith Campbell Berry stands.

It was his ambition, his dream, to have projecting from that corner window a huge gilded tooth, a molar with enormous prongs, something gorgeous and attractive. He would have it someday, on that he was resolved; but as yet such a thing was far beyond his means.

This was a standard Wall Street ritual. You obtained an offer from another bank, then used that offer to try to persuade your current employer to give you a raise. It's the only way to get ahead at an investment bank, and senior managers, though furious when you do this, will think you are a loser if you do not. It's not uncommon for a new salesman or trader to multiply his starting salary by as much as ten times in a few years, using such negotiating tactics.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

The best revenge is massive success

I spend a lot of time talking about something I believe passionately, which is that life is what you choose to make it, for the most part, and more often than not all you need to do is seize it by the throat and demand more from it.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

Progress is not created by contented people.