Quotes About Ambition

Will said, Are we partners? yes sir yes Will yes Will How soon can you get $5000? by next Wednesday shake Solemnly the stout man and the lean dark boy shook hands. Will, still holding Cals hand said Now were partners.

rose like cream to the top of milk.

He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no recreation, and he became rich without pleasure and respected without friends.

He took no rest, no recreation, and he became rich without pleasure and respected without friends.

Following this formula, John Jacob Astor, who arrived in America the classic penniless immigrant in 1792, rose to become the "landlord of New York" and the richest man in America by the time he died in 1848.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.

We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition — not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.

But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

You should want to be rich at 40, at 20 you should want to kill the rich; it's the right of youth

Merely for safety, after fame we thirst, For all men would be cowards if they durst.

I knew that I had to free myself from any constraints that would prevent the pursuit of these dreams.

a line from Søren Kierkegaard appeared on the first page to which I flipped: "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." I

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.

SEEK SIGNIFICANT CHANGE       ââ'¬Â¢ Never be content with performance or results.       ââ'¬Â¢ Remove all excuses for getting to the next level. Don't say "no"; ask

SEEK THOSE WITH A FIRE-IN-THE-BELLY ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

A person who values winning above anything will do anything to win. And such people are threats to their organizations.

Even at 94, I want to be the best I can be, and hard work is the only way to make this happen.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.