Bold Ambitions Quotes

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Dream a big dream, a bold dream. Don't play conservatively between the 40 yard lines. Don't just play it safe.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.

He who wants a great deal must not ask for little.

The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.