“Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper—Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition.”
Dee Hock, founder of VISA, when he was inducted into the Business Hall of Fame
From an excellent article about the role of ambition in the Francesca Gino fraud case, written by Bradford Tuckwell, who co-authored a paper with Gino but later left academia.