Quotes About Ambition

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

This is a tough business to run for president.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.