Quotes about Ambition

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are waiting for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn; waiting for the shape my hands will give them.

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.