Quotes About Ambition

Confidence is the poor mans money

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.