Quotes About Aspiration

Of course, when I was younger I always wanted to have the newest Air Force 1s but my budget wasn't too good back then! I always stuck with the white or black AF1s.

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.

My dad was a builder, so I didn't have any connection to the arts at all. I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

I always wanted to be an actor and wanted to sing and dance, I wanted to do lots of things, but at school I got ridiculed for it and bullied because of it.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.

I went to business school, because I thought that's where you had to go if you wanted to get rich.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

I want to be a successful businessman outside of football.

Since I was little, I've had that vision of a businesswoman inside me.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

Once you start succeeding, you start dreaming big. For me, it was that way.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

The fear of not succeeding becomes replaced with the courage to pursue the things that interest you outside of the career you're trying to forge.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.