Lloyd Blankfein Quotes

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

When I got into the business of entertainment, I did it for a reason. I didn't do it to not be successful. I did it to be successful. And to hopefully get to the highest level that I possibly could. Thus far, I'm achieving those goals. That doesn't make you stop. That doesn't make you complacent. It makes you want to do more.

Success only breeds a new goal

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

I wanted to be the best in the world.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

I don't even think in terms of ambition.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

I want greatness.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I'm really ambitious.

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.