The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

- William Shakespeare

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

—Don Marquis

I knew what I wanted, now that I was back in New York: the ultimate corporate banking job; a title, prestige, money, the whole bit. And I was relentless in my pursuit of it —and oh so realistic: It would be no different, I figured, than BSing my way into Café de Harvey in Chicago.