Quotes About Ambition

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

Let's resolve here and now that Hillary Clinton will never become the president of the United States of America.

I knew from the start I wanted to play for the United States of America.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.

I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

Xi Jinping is a very strong and ambitious leader who is looking to make a lot of changes in China. He is not looking to follow a Western model based on universal suffrage. That is for sure.

The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.

I don't think I ever want to just leave comedy and become a straight dramatic actor. But if the opportunity comes, I would love to be seen as universally talented in all trades.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.

When I was 13, my mom said she had a dream that I would win Miss Universe in a red dress.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

I think the universe was preparing me to be an actor. I never pursued one thing for long, but I was jack of all trades. I was learning everything possible because I knew my father would never shell out money for dresses or parties, but he would always give me money for new courses and books.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

I always wanted to be the rockin'est country chick in the universe.

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.