Quotes About Ambition

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Life is too short to be small. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI

So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.

What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? Embrace the suck for a while. Chances are your first job is going to stink and your living conditions won't be much better. Enjoy the scrappy years, 'cuz they'll make you self-sufficient way faster. Ignore anyone who tells you to go for security over experience.

It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. —JOHN F. KENNEDY

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." –Niccolò Machiavelli

when you're very competitive, you get good at the thing you're competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things.

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams. 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.

There is a way to get the rewards for a life of hard work without waiting until the end.

It's lonely at the top. 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. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It

Over the ensuing days, however, I realized that everyone seemed to be discussing how to build large and successful companies, sell out, and live the good life. Fair enough. The question no one really seemed to be asking or answering was, Why do it all in the first place? What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?

NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

the freedom and resolve to pursue your dreams without reverting to work for work's sake (W4W).

Persigue lo que te apasiona» es un consejo

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

What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please,

La tercera cosa es que cuando intentas hacer algo diez veces más grande, en lugar de un 10 por ciento mayor, no suele resultarte cien veces más difícil, pero la recompensa sí es cien veces mayor.»

case—a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.

The stars will never align

It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play."—Kwame Appiah.

There is just less competition for bigger goals. Doing big things begins with asking for them properly.