If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
Interpretation
Having a clear vision and passion is essential when pursuing new ventures.
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clear vision and direction when embarking on new endeavors. It suggests that to achieve goals and navigate challenges, one must have a guiding principle or 'north star' that inspires and motivates them, coupled with a belief in their eventual success fueled by passion.
In practice
Using this quote in a team meeting to inspire innovation.
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen
If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.
Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
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