Ambition
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I was like a hit album waiting to be released. I knew my day would come.
Oprah Winfrey Speaks (Janet Lowe, 1998)
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want the chance to change the world?
Said to John Sculley, then president of PepsiCo, when inviting him to join Apple. Fortune (September 14, 1987)
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
The Stream Of Life
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to
Ambition can creep as well as soar
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm
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