Quotes About Ambition

road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. "A crackerjack

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

megalomaniacal.

On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.

Among engineers generally, the most common form of ambition—the one made most socially acceptable—has been the desire to become a manager. If you don't become one by a certain age, then in the eyes of many of your peers you become a failure. Among computer engineers, I think, the wish to manage must be a virtual instinct.

Nothing every happens unless you push it. Ed Rasala. 111

As for the name of the theory behind selling enough stock to become millionaires, Richman told me, "I don't know how you put it in the vernacular. We called it the Fuck You Theory.

Why did I submit myself to the butchery of the trenches when I might have served in the echelons as a medical officer? Even the most rudimentary knowledge of Doctor Freud would suggest that I was pursuing a death wish

And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

Lo único que se necesita en la vida es seguridad, conocimiento y mucho descaro.

You don't understand. I finally find something worth doing and you … you have to try to spoil it. Why can't you just wish me luck and be glad that I might achieve something with my life instead of sitting around getting drunk or taking roet?" - Lorkin

I'd rather be honest with myself when it comes to business. I wanted to be better off than most dwells. Don't want to die a beggar. I'm not pretending I got higher purposes than that." - Cery

Solo aquellos que se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos sabrán lo lejos que pueden llegar.

You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discouragement up in the glamour of intellect.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.

a raging George Steinbrenner offered this morale-booster: "You will never be able to pitch in this league.

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect

You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find good jobs, enter politics, receive honours; they become famous writers, academics, journalists. Can anyone who is so good at looking after their own interests really be stupid? I'm the stupid one, the one who wanted to go tilting at windmills.

I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.

Aspirar a algo que no tendrás jamás, ¿es ésta la agudeza del más generoso entre los deseos?

Crecer en las sombras es el privilegio de quien se dispone a conquistar el mundo