Quotes About Ambition

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

Football is business and business is business.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

I have always been a business person.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

Television isn't my career. Business is.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.