“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.” RunningChanceSpaceCareersFiveChildhoodAchieveAmbitionBritishYour ChildrenPrincessCowboyPollsRangers Author:Jay Leno
“Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.” MenWorldWayFeelingsYoungWealthChanceConsciousnessPovertyAmbitionOvercomingEaseYoung ManLazyStimulusPricelessSpursInertiaCripplesInherited Wealth Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).” MaySometimesSeemsFacesGirlChancePartyBusinessDirectorsKissingOfficeAmbitionTeaBizarre Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.” PeopleWorldDesireMotivationForceInterestChanceDecisionTelevisionAmbitionScaredEnormousMediumsEnthusiasmPrimariesInnovativeTake A Chance Author:Sally Quinn
“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.” MenCertainChanceCourageVirtueActivityAmbitionBraveVariousPurityChastityChasteAssemblage Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.” MenMovingFormChanceTalentAmbitionOrganizationBottomLoyaltyPromotion Author:Alfred P. Sloan