Simon Cowell Quotes

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

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

I think success shows a person's true colors.

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

You know, you want to be a success. You want people to know who you are.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

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

Ambition is the mother of hypocrisy and prefers to skulk in corners and dark places. It cannot endure the light of day. It is an unclean vice wallowing in the depths, always hidden, but with ever an eye to advancement.

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

Mad ambition trumpeteth to all

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

We are all striving to acquire riches of honor or power, or some other object, whose possession is to realize the day dreams of our imaginations; and the aggregate of these efforts constitutes the advance of our society.

I've got so much to show the world.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

When you start to achieve success, you want to get more.

When I see people scratching and clawing towards ambition and greed, I wonder why they are doing it and for what.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Under every stone lurks a politician

Can we wonder that all has gone ill with us when our love of office survives in our very ruin?