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“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”

Ambition Incentives

Book:Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.”

Nature Principles Virtue Honor Ambition Glory Perfection Ambitious Incentives My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Walter Scott

“We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .”

Love Mind Wells Wanted Strong Goal Company Lucky Ambition Direct Right Thing Users Ambitious Google Incentives Great Love Deserving Large Companies Ambitious Goals

Author:Larry Page

“To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court”

Inspirational Littles Real Principles Virtue Honor Ambition Glory Perfection Court Vain Titles Ambitious Incentives Pageantry

Author:Philip Sidney

“If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.”

Ifs Science Chance Pride Ambition Intellectual Research Curiosity Intellect Mathematician Dominant Incentives Intellectual Curiosity

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.”

May Mean Culture Powerful Honor Ambition Posts Presidential Incentives Poorest

Author:James A. Garfield

“There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.”

Giving Believe Persons Spirit I Believe Effort Greater Ambition Criticism Praise Management Faults I Believe In Superiors Stations Criticize Anxious Approval Incentives Exalted

Author:Charles R. Schwab