You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
Kevin HartPeople think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
J. ColeTo win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.
Lou HoltzThese young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
Kobe BryantIn the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
Bill GatesAll I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul AusterMen rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo MachiavelliCompetition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry FordSome slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John RuskinI’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.
Taylor SwiftDerbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.
Jurgen KloppThere weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave GrohlJust as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.
George BestI loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine AlbrightAt the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian EnoI am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston ChurchillTo be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGreat American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Dan QuayleI don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody AllenI had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.
Dolly PartonOne can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen KellerWell, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.
Richard BransonI certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.
Conor McGregorAs a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
Robert KiyosakiI love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.
Kobe BryantI’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. BushI want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve JobsWe’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.
Richard BransonA lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.
Mark ZuckerbergI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas CarlyleI speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
Jackie RobinsonHip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘
EminemCompetition is a sin.
John D. RockefellerF2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.
Lando NorrisSome people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.
Conor McGregorTo make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘
Muhammad AliI think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.
Lando NorrisThe competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry FordI’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
The WeekndLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand RussellAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie RobinsonThe feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt VonnegutSome people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
Haruki MurakamiExpect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.
Kevin HartI’m definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.
Lando NorrisThe Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
Jurgen KloppThe female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Charles BukowskiThe connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.
Mark ZuckerbergI went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.
Nipsey HussleLook at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin PowellOften people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.
Robert GreeneOften, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
Robert KiyosakiI’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
Matthew McConaugheyThere is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
Jurgen KloppAmbition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeIt obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.
Cristiano RonaldoI want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
The WeekndThat which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon BonaparteIf my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.
Kendrick Lamar