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Quotes About Ambition

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.
~ Larry Ellison
I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.
~ Larry Ellison
I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.
~ Madeleine Albright
Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.
~ Martin Carver
There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
~ Neil Gaiman
This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.
~ Peter McWilliams
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
~ Publilius Syrus
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.
~ Richard Branson
The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.
~ Rick Warren
Look not down but up!
~ Robert Browning
It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.
~ Roger Goodell
I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.
~ Salma Hayek
I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.
~ Walter Cronkite
The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.
~ Zachary Levi
Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.
~ Alex Ferguson
I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Basketball used to be my top priority.
~ Derek Fisher
I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.
~ Dhirubhai Ambani
The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.
~ Donny Deutsch
And all may do what has by man been done.
~ Edward Young
No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.
~ Elizabeth Berkley