Quotes About Ambition

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

I have always had an ambition to do 'Dancing with the Stars.'

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.

You never start out being a star.

My roles aren't huge, but it's a start.

Like many start-up stories, mine has been rocky.

I have seen the way a conglomerate works. My personal calling was in start-ups, so I built my own start-up.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big company.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.