Quotes About Ambition

Here's another one of Ferrazzi's shameless attempts at self-promotion.

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. —Donald Trump

The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

A goal is a dream with a deadline." That marvelous definition drives home a very important point. Before you start writing down your goals, you'd better know what your dream is. Otherwise, you might find yourself headed for a destination you never wanted to get to in the first place.

Be the CEO of your own life. Raise hell... I went our of my way to take on projects no one wanted and initiated projects no one has thought of doing... I'd make the effort to create the job that I thought would make me happy

people with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh the masterpieces he was still going to write.

Fame—fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a huge oak tree and make farting sounds with its hands.

barely-affordable purpose. I had been tempted on several

I don't really know exactly what I want to be, but I know what I don't want to be.

Look here, sir, what is it you really want out of life? Urb? Snorthwinger? Oplozzies? There must be some chink in your implacability!

Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you?

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

La gente me pregunta "por qué no lo dejas?". El hecho es que no me puedo retirar hasta que no estire la pata. Creo que no acaban de entender lo que gano con todo esto. No lo hago sólo por el dinero ni por ti. Lo hago por mi.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

you've ever had in your hand ever, and more than your dad makes in a year, schlepping and working his fucking arse off. I mean, what to do with it is another thing, because I've got another gig to do, and I'm working. But I must say, the first taste of a few hundred crisp new bills was not unsatisfying. What to do with it took some time. But it was the first feeling of being ahead of the game. And all I did was write a couple songs and they gave it to me.

Chuck had to come up to Johnnie's mark. He'd been playing with slouches for years, with the cheapest band in town, just going in and out with a briefcase. To a musician, playing below your mark is soul destroying, and he had been doing that for ages, to the point where he was completely cynical about the music.

And you lay the old folder out. "Hmmmm. I say, we've had a good look at this, Keith, and it does show some promise. By the way, do you make a good cup of tea?" I said yes, but not for you. I walked off with my folio--it was green, I remember--and I dumped it in the garbage can when I got downstairs. That was my final attempt to join society on their terms.

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

We have to make our own opportunities. The world does not deliver kindnesses.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

I will make it if I have to crawl.

A go-getter is a cowboy who forgot to hobble his horse.