ambition Quotes

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you've lived a good life.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily... thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn't always follow what was going on.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I want to be a machine.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.