Quotes About Ambition

I had always wondered why people wanted to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. To be famous and not rich, the way we were, was the least fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

When you're in something that's successful, the subconscious fantasies you have about what your life could be start bursting through the surface -- I'll tell that son of a bitch when I get successful enough, or I'll buy this particular thing, or now they'll love me. It creates an enormous amount of expectant hopes and dreams, and it's terrible. Terrible.

I think everything depends on money.

Some day I'll find out what I want to do when I grow up.

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Do not buy into the idea that you have to keep relocating to accomplish your dreams in life.

We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.

I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?

The James Hills and J.P. Morgans are an affront to a society dedicated to the worship of mediocrity.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. I voiced the same line: "Cry 'Havoc!'" I said, "And let slip the dogs of war.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Mickelson ExxonMobil

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.