Ambition Quotes

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.

You must climb above yourself - up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

The distinction that lies in being unhappy (as if to feel happy were a sign of shallowness, lack of ambition, ordinariness) is so great that when someone says, "But how happy you must be!" we usually protest.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously'.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Work hard, have fun, make history.

If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over.

We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages.

Our vision for Kindle is every book ever printed in any language, all available in less than sixty seconds.

We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.