Quotes About Ambition

Managing Liverpool? Yes, for sure, I have dreamt of that, but first I have to prove myself and prepare.

I always prepare myself in the same manner and when the opportunity comes along you have to grasp it.

When Mike Hammond and I started Gateway 12 years ago on my father's cattle farm, we knew it could be big. We talked big. But there's no way we could have been prepared to go from less than $300 million in revenues to $5 billion in six years. You can't so much prepare for that kind of growth as sort of ride it and try to manage it.

I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.

You can only get better if you're prepared to go beyond your limits at times. That's very important for success.

I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.

I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to win. I just don't want to lose.

Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal.

If you have a dream, never stop preparing for that.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

I was preparing to get into one of the IITs when I was in school. I was a good student.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

Making my presence felt in Bollywood was one hell of a journey.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.

I always thought that I was going to be up there, whether it's was in the top 20, top 10, and I wasn't training hard, but I thought, you know... my strength, my presence, my talent would just keep me up there, without really training hard and really committing myself to the game.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.