Ambition Quote by Charles Ranlett Flint

“The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.”

— Habeeb Akande

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

— Joseph Joubert

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

— Lu Buwei

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

— William Hazlitt

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

— Rumi

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

— Erich Fromm

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

— John Wanamaker

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

— Rebecca Miller

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it.…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which,…

— Joseph Hall

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

— Vanna Bonta