Quotes About Ambition

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Ponzi had been in Brazil, and then Argentina, where he bought a boardinghouse populated by prostitutes, along with a hot dog stand. He had hoped it would be the start of a national chain.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Sometimes life is like trying to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling on the backs on five thousand turtles.

I confused growing up with settling down.

she seemed both proud and scared that I was where she had once wished to be.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.

The craving to be famous is like an insidious disease, no matter how well known you become it's never enough, it never satisfies.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

Glynnis Campbell

The only true failure is to never try.

A strong urge to succeed coupled with strong opposition to what it takes to succeed is the surest way to failure.

Don 't be discouraged because it is difficult, be encouraged because it is possible. Consider how bad you want it, not how difficult it is

Go far to go far.

Never wish to 'live the way you wish' if you haven't yet created your world.

No dream is big or crazy enough.

Someone told me that I am still too young to do it. I said that that is my biggest motivation.

The concern is not that there are many people and few opportunities. It is, there are many opportunities but there are few people who seize them.

The core force behind high achievers is a strong feeling that they easily can.

The successful use the power they think they have while the rest, resting desire the power they think they don't have.

Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and his powers.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.