Joe Greene Quotes

I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger than that.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Because you're a heartbeat away from the big office. That's why.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

That was how I felt at non-league. I never looked at it then and said, 'I want to be a Premier League manager one day'. I just wanted to do a good job and see where it could take me.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

I don't even think in terms of ambition.

You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

There is always room at the top.

When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

I had always wanted a top spot, ever since I came to Japan in 2008.

I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

I want to be a stand-up guy, a smart guy, a business guy. I always have that in my mind.

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.