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I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh - Inspirational - Pain - Challenges - Ambition - School

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".
Anil Ambani - Ambition - Belief - Goals - Commitment - Work

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
Mukesh Ambani - Ambition - Change - Business Growth

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
Mukesh Ambani - Ambition - Change - Partnership - Business Growth

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash - Belief - Motivational - Ambition

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
Mary Kay Ash - Ambition - Goals - Life

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can.
Conrad Black - Ambition - Optimistic

Don't quack like a duck.. soar like an eagle.
Ken Blanchard - Ambition - Motivational

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which befits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture, to affirm its democratic traditions and give expression to the diversity and vibrance of its community through its public education system. Putting optimism for everyone back into Australia’s future depends on it.
Bob Brown - Learning - Ambition

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange.
Bob Brown - Politicians - Ambition - Stock Market - Economy

I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing.
Steve Case - Ambition - Desire -

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens, but it's not a kind of thing where you just sort of sit back and wait.
Steve Case - Belief - Ambition - Action

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun.
Walter Chrysler - Inspirational - Fun - Ambition - Action

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
Chin-Ning Chu - Ambition - Success - Job

I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities.
Chris Corrigan - Business - Investing - Ambition - Opportunity - Job

What great changes have not been ambitious?
Melinda Gates - Ambition - Change - Great

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm.. in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Ideas - Commitment - Ambition

Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that.
Gerry Harvey - Companies - Management - Ambition

I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone.. This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.
Gerry Harvey - Management - Ambition - Challenges

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!
Takafumi Horie - Ambition - Optimistic

It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!
Ingvar Kamprad - Growth - Partnership - Ambition

When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.
Kirk Kerkorian - Motivational - Family - Ambition - Encouragement - Strength

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.
John McCain - Ambition - Politician

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
Dr Phil - Self Help - Ambition - Encouragement

I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all.
Angela Merkel - Change - Politicians - Ambition - Ideas - Enjoyment - Opportunity

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership.
Minoru Mori - Leadership - Real Estate - Innovation - Ambition

We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.
Rupert Murdoch - Climate Change - Carbon - Growth - Ambition

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.
Pierre Omidyar - Passions - Ambition

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve.
Bob Parsons - Ambition - People - Business

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.
Azim Premji - Companies - Technology - Ambition

An ambitious horse will never return to its old stable.
Chinese Proverbs - Ambition - Improvement

My father’s vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.
Gina Rinehart - Economy - Australia - Ambition

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you.
J. K. Rowling - Success - Ambition - Book - Media - Famous

I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference.
Kevin Rudd - Politicians - Change - Ambition - Improvement

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches.
Charles Saatchi - Art Collecting - Ambition - Selling

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.
Sakip Sabanci - Action - Commitment - Ambition

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Action - Strength - Achievement - Life - Ambition

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw - Ambition - Motivational - Goals

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw - Ambition - Change - Growth

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw - Life - Goals - Ambition

We are taking an aggressive stance looking at the future of Percept, not just in numbers, but in terms of market share and size. The challenge is to continuously sustain our growth on a year-on-year basis. The 2010 figure of US$1 billion is just a benchmark figure. Looking at the market opportunities and our strengths, I am sure we will be well past this figure, come 2010.
Harindra Singh - Growth - Ambition - Strength - Challenges

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Martha Stewart - Success - Ambition

High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton - Encouragement - Ambition

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde - Inspirational - Ambition

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