Ambition in Work Quotes

"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."

"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do."

"Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self."

"Be uncommon amongst uncommon people."

"I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."

"The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it."

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

"I don't think limits."

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

"You have to be obsessed. You have to be all in."

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

"Obsession is the engine of greatness. If you're not obsessed, you're just average."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"I never knew a man come to any eminence who lay in bed late in the morning."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"In a startup, you have to do the hard things. The things that nobody else wants to do."

"If you want to do something that matters, you are going to have to do things that are difficult."

"Jealousy is simply a blocked desire. It shows you what you want."

"If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed."

"Startups are hard. If they were easy, everyone would do them."

"The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place. The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer."

"If you want to do something really important, you must first quiet your mind."

"There is no speed limit."

"Smart people should build things."

"Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential."

"A startup is a company designed to grow fast."

"Great careers are not linear; they are a series of pivots."

"You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future."

"Establish an identity independent of your employer, city, and industry."

"Great cities attract ambitious people."

"Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things."