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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Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
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