Honore de Balzac Quotes

There is more opportunity for a nobody to become a somebody in Washington than in the whirl-pool of New York.

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

You have to get to the next level, or you're gonna get stuck where you are for the rest of your life.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

Life is pulled by goals and pushed by drive. Make sure you have both!

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be