Quotes About Ambition

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.

More difficult still, apparently, is the life of ever upward growth. Most men attempt it for a time, but growth is slow; and despair overtakes them while the goal is far away.

I want it, I want it!" Her face grew liverish. "I make the money, so I can have what I want. You can't stop me!" "Jane,

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

It ought to be the employer's ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman's ambition to make it possible

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced.

I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done.

The amount of wealth produced is nowhere commensurate with the desire for wealth, and desire mounts with every additional opportunity for gratification.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

The world is my lobster.