Quotes About Ambition

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT FROST,

Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." —Polish proverb

Stop wishing and start doing.

D: To reach the big pay-off, whether IPO, acquisition, retirement, or other pot of gold. NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

Ser un emprendedor es estar dispuesto a hacer un trabajo que nadie más quiere hacer [para] poder vivir el resto de tu vida haciendo lo que quieras hacer.»

La cuestión, por tanto, es: ¿Cómo consigo alcanzar el estilo de vida de libertad absoluta que tienen los millonarios sin tener un millón de dólares de partida?

vida, como abogado, como médico, como agente de bolsa, o lo que sea?».

Someday' is disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you..

Relative Income Is More Important Than Absolute Income.

What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? Work harder than everyone else. Of course, that is easy when you love your job. But you might not love your first, or second, or even third job. That doesn't matter. Work harder than everyone else. In order to get the job you love or start the company you want, you have to build your résumé, your reputation, and your bank account. The best way to do that: Outwork them all.

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-and energy-consuming.

Porque un sueño es algo con lo que fantaseas y que probablemente nunca llegará a ocurrir. Una meta es algo que planificas, en lo que trabajas y que alcanzas.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

It is much like goal-setting but differs in several fundamental respects: 1. The goals shift from ambiguous wants to defined steps. 2. The goals have to be unrealistic to be effective. 3. It focuses on activities that will fill the vacuum created when work is removed. Living like a millionaire requires doing interesting things and not just owning enviable things.

To do what you desire to do, you have all you need.

I don't create art to get high-dollar projects, I do high-dollar projects so I can create more art.

It's okay to have a desire. But pick a big one and pick it carefully. Drop the small ones.

not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Marc Andreessen (here) long ago referred to the above double-/triple-threat concept, citing Scott's writing, as "even the secret formula to becoming a CEO. All successful CEOs are like this." He reiterated that you could also cultivate this in school by getting unusual combinations of degrees, like engineering + MBA, law degree + MBA, or undergrad physics + economics.

Somewhere between college graduation and your second job, a chorus enters your internal dialogue: Be realistic and stop pretending. Life isn't like the movies.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.

This book is for anyone who is sick of the deferred-life plan and wants to live life large instead of postpone it.

Work hard to beat the competition." The truth is that competition is the opposite of creativity. If I am working hard to beat the competition, it actually prevents me from thinking creatively to make all concepts of competition obsolete.