Quotes About Ambition

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

In America, small business is a big deal.

I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

My business is to succeed, and I'm good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.

Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.