Quotes About Ambition

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Design your own job. If you see things in your company that need doing that aren't being done, create a new job for yourself. Come up with an excellent pitch about all the ways this will benefit the company and help them make craploads of money, and name your salary. You never know, stranger things have happened.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed, it's a desire for life.

She did her homework. She studied her industry, the people she'd love to work with, and learned creative ways to sell by finding common ground between herself and prospects that were "out of her league.

If you made the decision that you were going to reach your goals, you would do whatever it took.

If you're playing it safe and you want to be rich, you need to stop playing it safe. You need to shift your focus from where you're at and what you stand to lose and become consumed by thoughts of where you desire to be and all you have to gain. You need to play to win instead of play not to lose.

figure out what makes you feel like you could carry a horse over your head and do it as often as possible. You are going for the gold here, you have to stay in The Zone. 9.

Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.

You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.

If you're going to make more money, you need to get in touch with the emotions surrounding your incentive for making it, because emotions are what drive you to action.

And if you're going to make the kind of money you've never made before, you're going to have to do a whole lotta stuff you ain't never done before, which will scare and challenge (and excite) the crap out of you.

So you're going to want to be real fired up about getting rich and very clear about why it's so important to you. Here are the best ways to do that.

Specifics create emotions, and emotions give us the no-nonsense determination to do whatever it takes to reach our goals.

But maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realize you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.

Much of the time we pretend we aren't clear on what out calling is when what's really going on is that we're horrified to face it because it seems too big or too impossible to make a living at or completely out of the question for us.

Watching someone else totally go for it can be incredibly upsetting to the person who's spent a lifetime building a solid case for why they themselves can't.

Success is not about where you're at, it's about where, and who, you decide you're going to be.

So if you finally decide to quit your soul-crushing job and start the pastry shop of your dreams, be not upset if a truck drives through your front window into your scones. Instead of taking this as a sign that you shouldn't have opened your shop, take it to mean that you're ridding yourself of your BS and moving in the right direction.

If you're around people who are making money in great and joyful ways, you'll not only see what's possible for you, but you'll be motivated to push yourself.

you're a greedy egomaniacal fathead for wanting more than you already have.

You have one glorious and brief shot at being the you that is you on Planet Earth, and the power to create whatever reality you desire. Why not be the biggest, happiest, most generous, and fully realized humanoid you can be?

Take a deep breath, trust your desires, and embrace the fact that your quest for riches is a quest to become more of who you truly are. We don't all desire to live a huge, fancy life or solve world hunger, that's not what this is about.

this: You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed, it's a desire for life.