Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
Interpretation
Understanding your current strengths is crucial before planning for the future.
Reid Hoffman's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and articulating the resources, skills, and advantages one already possesses before setting ambitions or making plans for the future. It suggests that successful entrepreneurs assess their existing assets and leverage them as a foundation for future endeavors, thus ensuring that their dreams and strategies are grounded in reality.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship, one might say, 'As Reid Hoffman wisely pointed out, before dreaming about the future,...'
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For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
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