Quotes About Ambition

if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.

Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.

Queremos aspirar a lo grande. El infinito es nuestro amigo. El infinito es seguro. El infinito nos ofrece un lugar donde escondernos.

I think it's an analogy for that choice we all have in life: Are you going to fulfill your potential? Or, are you just going to give into the peer pressure of the moment and become nothing?

But," you might ask, "what about a first, like colonizing Mars?" There are still recipes. Look

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want." Desire is a driver, a motivator. In fact, a sincere and uncompromising desire, placed above everything else, is nearly always fulfilled.

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.

Así que no podemos obedecer más que los demás para competir con ellos. Por tanto, tenemos que superar a los demás en cuanto a capacidad de liderazgo y de resolución de problemas…

You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life you want? How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?

Excellence is the next five minutes, improvement is the next five minutes, happiness is the next five minutes. This doesn't mean you ignore planning. I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each "moment of impact," one step at a time. I've had a life full of doubts . . . mostly for no good reason.

D: To buy all the things you want to have. NR: To do all the things you want to do, and be all the things you want to be. If this includes some tools and gadgets, so be it, but they are either means to an end or bonuses, not the focus.

If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?" For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: "What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head?

Si te remontas veinte o veinticinco años, me habría gustado saber que no había ninguna necesidad de esperar. Fui a la universidad. Fui a la facultad de Derecho. Trabajé en el mundo de la abogacía y de la banca, aunque no durante una cantidad terrible de tiempo. Pero hasta que inicié PayPal no me di cuenta por completo de que no tienes que esperar para emprender algo.

Así que si estás pensando en hacer algo con tu vida, si has planificado cómo llegar hasta ahí en diez años, deberías preguntarte por qué no puedes hacerlo en seis meses.

Sigue tus sueños." Es imposible hacerlo sin conocerse uno mismo, lo cual lleva años.

Is that a dream, or a goal? Because a dream is something you fantasize about that will probably never happen. A goal is something you set a plan for, work toward, and achieve. I

The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It's so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning our ambitions.

I decided a long time ago that I would only bet on myself.

I think you should try to slay dragons. I don't care how big the opponent is. We read about and admire the people who did things that were basically considered to be impossible. That's what makes the world a better place to live.

when you're going 10% bigger, you're competing against everybody. Everybody's trying to go 10% bigger. When you're trying to go 10 times bigger, you're there by yourself.

If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

these men signed up all those years ago for the full five-course meal, including the bitter dessert, and they got to this point without ever doing anything to push back from the table and use their lives to accomplish something useful.