Clive Owen Quotes

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I'm in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I'm not in there to just fight for free.

Generally the things you get offered are never things you want to do. It's a continual fight for the good parts. As you climb the ladder and get to different benchmarks, enter new stratospheres, you're just competing against all the other people in that stratosphere.

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

I love competition.And I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.

Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

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

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

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

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.

I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.