Quotes About Ambition

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. And he created a corporation crammed with A players.

he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.

up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.

Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.

Bushnell agreed. "There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. "He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

Fortune proclaimed

As [the company] has grown larger and larger, I have enjoyed my daily work less and less

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase.

Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention.

I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.

I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.

Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but

Money is not the greatest of motivators," Torvalds said. "Folks do their best work when they are driven by passion.

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

He did it better because Steve had challenged him," said Atkinson

Hacer lo imposible es bastante divertido, declaró en una ocasión Walt Disney.

Jobs's ambition was to build a company that would endure, and he asked Markkula what the formula for that would be. Markkula replied that lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?