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• Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Limited Resources, Fit, Strategy

  "The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company". Book by Donald Soderquist (p. 178), April 21, 2005.

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• If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Ambition, Entrepreneur, Want

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• To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

  Josephine Hart

  Ambition, Winning, Games

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ambition, Suffering, World

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ambition, Men, Evil

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ambition, Suggestions, Purpose

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• Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Bird, Might, Truth Is

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.

  Harriet Lerner

  Girl, Women, Anxiety

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• Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, Business, Humility

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• The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivational, Goal, Process

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• The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

  George Will

  People, Political, Agendas

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• The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

  Akhenaton

  Distance, Joy, Mind

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• Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

  Doug Casey

  Integrity, Patriotic, Government

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• I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.

  Amy Sedaris

  Confused, Reading, Agency

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• [ Marco Rubio] overly ambitious, too young, and I have better hair than he does.

  Jeb Bush

  Hair, Doe, Young

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

  Evo Morales

  Selfish, Mean, Defense

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

  Sam Harris

  People, Suffering, Religion

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• The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Expectations, Problem

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• Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

  Tory Burch

  Believe, Entrepreneur, Challenges

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• I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

  Sarah Emma Edmonds

  Success, Romantic, Ambition

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• Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

  Erwin Rommel

  Smart, Men, Giving

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• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Doe, Harm

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

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• Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Four, Fool, Lovers

  "Notes on Paris".

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• Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

  Marcus Licinius Crassus

  Jealous, Men, Greed

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