Quotes About Ambition

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

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These facts give you a fair idea of what the reading of this book may bring to you, provided you know what it is that you want.

Throw away your hammer and quit knocking, for surely you must know that the big prizes of life go to the builders and not the destroyers.

DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

I wish I had asked you for $100,000,000 more." "If you had asked for it, you'd have gotten it

The dramatic story of "Big Business" which you have just finished, was included in this book because it is a perfect illustration of the method by which desire can be transmuted into its physical equivalent!

POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money.

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE. Knowing what one wants is the first and, perhaps, the most important step toward the development of persistence. A strong motive forces one to surmount many difficulties.

It is my duty, and a privilege to say I believe, and not without reason, that nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring

If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.

KNOW WHAT HE WANTED, AND THE DETERMINATION TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL HE REALIZED IT.

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. HOW

Some individuals appear to be "allergic" to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.

Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss, and sooner or later you will be.

WHAT IS YOUR "QQS" RATING?

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it." This

those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meagre.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! Persons, especially salaried people, who schedule their spare

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement, and its lack is the stumbling block for ninety-eight out of every hundred people simply because they never really define their goals and start toward them. Study

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.