Quotes about Ambition

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.

Vulcan Inc. is a unique organization that unites commercial, philanthropic, research, policy, and technology innovation. Our goals are ambitious - from saving Africa's elephants to unlocking the secrets of the human brain to building sustainable communities and opening up access to space.

Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn't be successful until I let the street life go.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

Confidence and ambition are the most attractive qualities to me, and knowing what you want and being upfront about it is a big part of that.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.