Quotes About Ambition

I never could understand why Leslie Fenton gave up a soft touch in front of the camera to move behind it.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.

United Bank Card, I picked that name in 1999 because it sounded like an established financial institution, and I was 16 years old in my parents' basement, so I needed a name like that. The moment we started building our own hardware and software and had our point-of-sale capabilities by 2008, that was the last message we wanted to send.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it's pretty easy to think, 'OK, we can build something pretty big.'

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

At age 15, I sold a television series to NBC.

For 99.9% of the players there, they are at United because they want to be at United, and it is their dream move. That gives United a little bit of an advantage over other clubs, where some players are maybe there because there was financial pressure for them to be sold.

I've never been platinum. I've never sold out an arena. I've never been on an arena tour.