“This is not ambition. This is desperation.”
“The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.”
“My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.”
“Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.”
“That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.”
“It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible”