Adam Smith Quotes

I want to be a major force.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

You want power because it's an opportunity.

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

Great hopes make great men.

What strikes me most singular in you is, that you are fonder of Power than of Fame.

Men love power.

The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something.

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

… ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

I don’t know anyone who is successful that has a small ego.

It is not a mistake to want power.

I only aim at the powerful.

If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

I always want to be first.

Just being at the top makes me excited. I want to stay at the top.

My aim has always been to be at the top.

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.

If you do the job out there on the pitch and you have it under control, as in my case, you want more. You want more responsibility. You want to take care of it all. That is the case with me.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.