James A. Champy (1942) American businessman
James Champy, Nitin Nohria (2001), The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey. p. 1
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
Federalist No. 51 (6 February 1788)
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
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“Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 25
“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”
Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand
Source: The Amulet of Samarkand
“Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.”
Michael Kinsley (1951) American political journalist, commentator television host
As quoted in Time, Jan. 4, 2008
Fatima Jinnah (1893–1967) Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman and one of the leading founders of Pakistan
1948, Address to All Pakistan Muslim Youth Convention at Karachi, quoted in Speeches, Messages and Statements of Mohtarama Fatima Jinnah, p. 5
“I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It's simply my way of being alone.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Não tenho ambições nem desejos
Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha
É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), O Guardador de Rebanhos ("The Keeper of Herds", tr. Richard Zenith) in Athena (January 1925)
“Ambition is the death of thought.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
Ehrgeiz ist der Tod des Denkens.
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 41
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)