Quotes About Ambition

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

How much would you pay to launch our economy? How much would you pay for the universe?

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

While I remained ambitious, punctual, and hedonistic at home, I had learned to better appreciate the timeless beauties and blessings of nature, to value sincerity as a cardinal virtue and reject the Western reverence for affectation and hypocrisy, and to make my frantic life pause for sunrises, sunsets, and full moons.

she's sure she's going to be the next J. K. Rowling.

Neil S. Plakcy

New York Times

lower-income New York

Cao reveled in the acclaim and the prospect of a general's stars. "I kill fifty Viet Cong today," he would announce to reporters coming to the command post. He began to learn the public relations game perhaps too well.

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. [If he had], Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

As long as you show that you're willing to take it further than them, they'll tend to back off, whoever they may be.

I want to have money, so I don't have to spend my life chasing money.

Neil Young David Briggs

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.