Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.
BO
Barack ObamaKnox College Commencement Address (2005)
About Barack Obama
44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (b. 1961)
More from Barack Obama
- Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.Speech on Super Tuesday night (2008)
- Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.Iowa Caucus victory speech (2008)
- It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.Knox College Commencement Address (2005)
- Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.New Hampshire primary night speech (2008)
- I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.Farewell Address (2017)
- Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.Campaign rally speech (2008)
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- Seek wealth, not money or status.Naval Ravikant
- When you lift up women, you lift up humanity.Melinda French Gates
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.Elon Musk
- Life is too short for non-WOW projects.Tom Peters
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