Quotes About Ambition

I have always been goal-oriented. I have a clearly defined set of daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, annual goals, and lifetime goals. I even have goals to go to the bathroom. I always tell our young executives that they must have goals.

To many successful, achievement-oriented children of the affluent, accumulating money is not the superordinate goal. Instead, they want to be well educated, to be respected by their peers, and to occupy a high-status position. For

Most people who become millionaires have confidence in their own abilities. They do not spend time worrying about whether or not their parents were wealthy. They do not believe that one must be born wealthy.

Victor wants his children to have a better life. He encourages them to spend many years in college. Victor wants his children to become physicians, lawyers, accountants, executives, and so on. But in so encouraging them, Victor essentially discourages his children from becoming entrepreneurs.

I don't own big hats, but I have a lot of cattle.

Most millionaires, for example, are not intellectually gifted in an analytical sense. They did not receive all As in school, nor were they in the 1400-and-above SAT club. That's why they decided not to compete in macho dogfight environments where superior analytical intelligence is a requirement to succeed.

having a set of stated goals does not necessarily mean that one is committed to achieving them. Most of us want to be wealthy, but most of us do not spend the time, energy, and money required to enhance our chances of realizing this goal.

set of daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and lifetime goals

It is not her intention to create another generation of weak sisters.

The Rings give them educations. Such gifts are intended to enhance their grandchildren's discipline, ambition, and independence.

The first-generation affluent are typically entrepreneurs.

PAWs need to achieve, to create wealth, to become financially independent, to build something from scratch.

Eighty percent of America's millionaires are first-generation rich.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

Pokud chcete nÄ›co, co jste nikdy nemÄ›li, musíte být ochotni udÄ›lat nÄ›co, co jste nikdy neudÄ›lali.

It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven't forgiven.

And with love, ambitions!

Castles in the Air My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My castles in the air. I dwell not now on what may be: Night shadows o'er the scene: But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.

I have always been an admirer, I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

It's hard to keep going when it seems like you're not getting anywhere, but you'll never succeed if you stop. Those of us with a dream that seems so far from being realized must remember that the road is long, but only those who stay on the path will reach their destination.