Quotes About Ambition

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

A lot of people think they'll be earning money like they are now for the rest of their lives. I think once you have that type of mindset, it's over.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

Money is the best lotion in the world.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.