Quotes About Ambition

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.

Music was always a passion, but when I was a kid I didn't see it as a viable career.

I don't think my vibe will work in Bollywood. But Hollywood, maybe.

There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.

I'll start by saying that our motto that we were living by was 'gold vibes only,' and yes, our goal is to win gold. We're at the Olympics, that's what everyone's goals and dreams should be. If you don't have that goal set out for yourself as a team, as individuals, then what are you doing here?

I don't want to bring in negative vibes in my career.

Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.

I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won.

Richard Nixon is very much a self-made man in the six years prior to his emergence as a national figure. Between the moment he's elected to Congress in 1946 and the moment he's inaugurated as Vice President in 1953, he conducts nothing less than a kind of prodigy of American political self-advancement.

I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

I can't say that I grew up saying, 'Someday I want to be vice president of the Lakers,' because that's not how it happened. I work for our family business, and that happens to be the Lakers.

I was never the type who had a particular ambition. I had friends in college who would say, 'I want to be a vice president by the time I'm 35 years old.' A lot of people had these career plans. I didn't have any. I thought if I did my best, good things would happen.

Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.

You totally can have it all if you want it all. And there's nothing wrong with wanting it all. But also, there's nothing wrong with not having it all if you want a career rather than kids, or vice versa.

We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.