The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Interpretation
Taking risks is essential for success in entrepreneurship, often requiring you to build your path as you go.
This quote by Reid Hoffman emphasizes the unpredictable nature of entrepreneurship. It suggests that starting a new venture is akin to leaping into the unknown, where one must create solutions and strategies mid-flight, highlighting the importance of adaptability and initiative in the face of uncertainty.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire budding entrepreneurs.
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible.
China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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