Business Quote by David Ogilvy

“son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be”

— Og Mandino

“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter…

— Ayn Rand

“I say that ambition is absurd, and yet I remain in its thrall. It’s like being a slave all your life, then learning one…

— Tom Rachman

“Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty.”

— Patience Johnson

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

— Immanuel Kant

“But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.”

— Earl of Chesterfield

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I think that in practical life there is something about success, actual success, that is a little unscrupulous, something about ambition that is unscrupulous…

— Oscar Wilde