Quotes About Ambition

I don't have an MBA, I don't have a qualification in music, but I am doing both - business and music - and I am doing quite well.

At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play.

I didn't think I was ever going to be a Cup driver. When I was a kid, before I started racing in the Xfinity Series, I thought that I was never going to get a chance, and then, if I did, I wasn't going to run well enough to maintain that opportunity and keep progressing.

I was working on 'My Little Pony' in the '80s, but I got fired because I couldn't draw the ponies well enough. It was a horrible show.

I regret something about every single one of my roles. I always, always have something to regret about them, because I just think I didn't do well enough with them.

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

I don't give a damn about the money. I earn my living well enough.

I think with England, I look at myself and accept that I didn't do well enough; then, other times, I was playing my best football for United and England didn't happen.

I'm not as rich as I could be or should be, but I've done well enough.

It is well known I prefer to play through the middle, so when I get my opportunity, I just want to show what I can do.

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

I am just saying people can be successful even though they might not be well known.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

I was a single mom by choice at 37, and if my love life hadn't quite panned out, most everything else had. I was a classic 'amazing girl' - driven, social, and relentlessly well-rounded - reveling in the fruits of post-Title IX America: an all-metro athlete in high school, Rhodes Scholar at 24, best-selling author by 27.

I will never risk my wellbeing for my career and it's always worked out well for me and led me to the right places.

I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.

When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.