Quotes About Ambition

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all about to end when 'blank' happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.

When I was watching 19 and 20-year-olds go through this, dropping out of college to become famous on the Internet, I saw that it can go well but it can also go poorly, and usually it'll be a mix of those two things.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

In the early 90s, I did not want to get stuck in pop music.

I'd always wanted a challenge and I suppose that's why I've always wanted to go into pop music, because I want to be seen as someone that broke the record.

I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

I feel very ready to be a pop star. I feel like that's something that I deserve, and I feel prepared for being number one in the charts!

I never really told my parents that I wanted to be a pop star or anything. They just knew that I was totally obsessed with music. Funnily enough, my father always used to say that he didn't think I could sing.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt was that you have to be pro-active. You can't be scared.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

I would love to be a pop star!

I'm not a pop star. I don't feel like one. I'm always joking that I'm actually an eight-year-old boy dreaming about being a pop star.