Quotes about Ambition

In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. If you wish to be good, you will be good. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. Only then you must really wish these things and wish them with exclusiveness and not wish one hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

The 'C' students run the world.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes. I make where I go. It's that sort of thing.