Quotes About Ambition

Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!

I walked around the music industry for a bunch of years, right? I saw a lot of rich people. I didn't see wealthy. I got into the tech industry, I see wealthy every day.

I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Hard work pays off. But it doesn't stop now. I know I'm generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.

There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people who have run for office and failed, certainly in Illinois.

Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier ways of doing it.

I'm saving money like there's no tomorrow because, when I was at Juilliard, I had so little. They gave me a full scholarship because I didn't come from a wealthy family or anything.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

Of course many children are dreaming to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United. I always just wanted to wear the jersey of Partizan, Newcastle, and Serbia.

I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.