Quotes About Ambition

The meeting was just ending when Doerr asked a final question: "How big do you think this can be?" "Ten billion," said Larry Page.

still working hard at Google, even though they had the wealth of Saudi princes.

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely

The basic requirements were sky-high intelligence and unquenchable ambition. A more elusive criterion was one's Googliness.

Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did. - Terry Winograd

Kay himself has conceded that technological wizards generally fall into two categories: the Michelangelo types who dream of Sistine Chapels and then actually spend years building them, and the da Vincis, who have a million ideas but seldom finish anything themselves.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Nero wanted only to be an actor; Commodus, to be a gladiator; and young Antoninus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to be Venus!

Now as I grow older, Meto, I grow less and less able to tolerate the stupidity of the people and the wickedness of their rulers. I have seen too much suffering created by ambitious men who care only for themselves.

Like Cleopatra," observed Philostratus, "they reached such a pinnacle by using their connection to men: Cleopatra through Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Domna through Severus, Maesa and her daughter through the two young cousins—one or both of them said to be the son of Caracalla. And now those boys rule jointly, since Antoninus adopted him and made him Caesar.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.

Los hombres no se contentan con consolarse mediante cuentos de dios y gigantes, o limitando sus pensamientos a los asuntos cotidianos de la vida. También construyen telescopios, satélites y aceleradores, y se sientan en sus escritorios durante horas interminables tratando de descifrar el significado de los datos que reúnen.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

We [Americans] became a nation of java junkies, wired from dawn to dusk intent on running faster, getting richer, dancing harder, playing longer and getting higher than anybody else.