Quotes About Ambition

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don't have the money, but you're creative and determined enough, you'll find the way.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Wait 'till I get my money right.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Money does not guarantee success.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement