Quotes About Ambition

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich.

Nearly all makers have day jobs early in their careers.

Many things people like, especially if they're young and ambitious, they like largely for the feeling of virtue in liking them. 99% of people reading Ulysses are thinking I'm reading Ulysses as they do it.

One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.

Wealth is what you want, not money.

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.

They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace—that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.

What is particularly clear is that these Satanists seek to remove God from the center of the universe and replace God with man—akin to communists' goals. To repeat, as Whittaker Chambers said of communists' first and most fundamental ambition: Ye shall be as gods.

It will be necessary to repeat the year 1793," wrote Lenin. "After achieving power, we'll be considered monsters, but we couldn't care less."22 Lenin and his self-described group of "glorious Jacobins" would monstrously do just that, and, indeed, could not care less.

Ronald Reagan, from his governorship to his presidency, kept a sign on his desk that read, "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don't think he did either.

Knowledge was always purposive: it was characterised by a will to dominate or appropriate.

Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy.

Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.

the obstacles to becoming noticed or published

I think shows how nebulous some migrants regard this desire for transformation.

People always tell you that night school is a good thing,' I said. 'But they are the same people who go home after a day's work and eat and snooze and listen to the radio. You students are doing one of the hardest things in the world- studying at night, when you're tired ...

It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive

Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.