Quotes About Ambition

The way I operate is I want to win, so I'll do whatever.

As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

I want to be known as trying to be one of the best of the best - whether I get there or not, it's up to opinion.

There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

En este mundo sólo hay dos tragedias: una es no conseguir lo que deseas y la otra conseguirlo.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Once in New York, you are sure to be a great success. I know lots of people there who would give a hundred thousand dollars to have a grandfather, and much more than that to have a family ghost.

JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it hard enough to keep my own.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

Credit is a young man's capital.

He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places.

nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.

Robert, how could you have sold yourself for money? I did not sell myself for money. I bought success at a great price. That is all.

Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst—the last is a real tragedy.