Quotes About Ambition

Good shows have to get made in the first place... The regular ones don't excite me as an actor but at the end of the day, I have to work to earn my bread and butter.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

My first thing was a McDonald's commercial.

Whatever I want, the next car or the next house, I stick a picture of it to the back of my door, so I can look at it first thing in the morning and dream it into existence.

Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.

When people would ask me what do you do, I'd say I make music for cartoons. I could see the compassion in their eyes. I gotta tell you, there was no room for compassion: I was making money hand over fists.

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.

I guess my goal is to be the fittest mayor in the country.

Like, for real, I'm going to be like Larry Fitzgerald. Maybe even more.

If they said, 'Do five pull-ups,' I would always want to do 10.

I saw 'Seinfeld' on TV and told my mum that would be something cool to try one day, and she was like, OK, 'Here is a five-year-old telling me what they want to when they grow up' sort of thing, and what would they know, right!

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

I didn't think I'd even know a president of the United States, let alone work in the White House. Even though my parents always said you can do whatever you want to do, I never dreamed of this kind of an opportunity.

I don't think Trump really believes in all this stuff. But he thinks this would be his ticket to the White House - at least to get the Republican nomination.

I never set out to work in the White House.

As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, it is still possible to progress if not from a log cabin at least from obscurity to the White House. It is also rare.

Most people in Washington assumed if Obama made it to the White House he would appoint Biden as his secretary of state, a position Biden openly admitted he wanted.