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    If at great things thou would'st arrive,
    Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
    Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
    Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
    They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
    While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- read more

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.

by Laurel Cutler Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to read more

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

by John D. Rockefeller Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

by John Dryden Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

by Sir Henry Taylor Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy read more

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

by Sir William Osler Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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

by William Lilly Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

by Horace Walpole Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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