Quotes About Ambition

Robert Maxwell had always yearned to manage a publicly quoted company, not just for the prestige but, more pertinently, to enable him to play with other people's money. The Maxwell Communication Corporation was that tool, marred though it was for him by a colossal defect: the legal requirement for public accountability.

Tom Junior invented the story that his father had won $750,000 in the California State Lottery. There was no lottery 'win' but Thomas did give Tom Junior money to start a flower shop and bought Samantha a car.

She always fought, as Sonia Ardakani noticed, 'tooth and nail for the things she wanted in life'.

America is a nation of big shoulders and big dreams.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

While we are pushed by drives, we are pulled by meaning, and

It is the feeling of inferiority, inadequacy and insecurity that determines the goal of an individual's existence.

What drives them, more than rewards, is the desire to find or create order where there was none before.

I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

In life, it's not what you hope for, its not what you deserve, it's what you take.

Your Why Power will Ignite your Willpower to help you implement Habits that will enable you to Pursue Your Purpose with PASSION!

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.

I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

I was never once told to consider anything but my dreams. It's probably one of the greatest gifts my parents gave me, because it never occurred to me to do something other than what I loved.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.