Ambition

Do more than just dream; create a vision. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real. You need to create a vision. This takes determination, and a plan that takes your dream to a destination.

When there are better players around you, you get better.

You don't have to be Bill Gates or Thomas Edison or Henry Ford to make a difference. Thousands of less famous entrepreneurs have done more than their part to enrich this country.

Growth has been the great alleviator of poverty. Growth has been the engine of social mobility. Growth is the key ingredient in the glue that holds our society together.

Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

I believe that if people are not laughing at your ambitions and your goals, then your dreams are not big enough.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Do not confuse dreams with wishes. Dreams are where you visualize yourself being successful at what's important to you to accomplish. Dreams build convictions because you work hard to pay the price to make sure that they come true. Wishes are hoping good things will happen to you, but there's no fire in your gut.

Trust yourself. Dig deep down and ask yourselves, who do you want to be? Not what, but who.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You push yourself because you believe in yourself and in your vision.

You don't receive respect, you earn it, and you aren't given opportunity, you fight for it.