ambition
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“I just thought, well, there we go. I’m just never going to wear brown shoes,” said Raath, who now runs his own consulting firm, the Ambition Company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Ambition - for themselves and their party, and, they'd say, the country - is what gets politicians out of bed in the morning.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
Newsom’s talk also matched the tenor of a critique of the oil industry he delivered last fall at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024
In our inaugural edition of Money Talks, Felix Salmon sits down with veteran fashion writer Marisa Meltzer, author of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2024
‘Today we are to confer the five-dollar award upon the high-school student who wrote the best essay on the topic, “My Ambition: How I Can Better the Position of the Negro Race in Society.”
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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