You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
Interpretation
Dreaming is essential for achieving success in business and life.
In this quote, Ernest Hemingway emphasizes the importance of dreaming and vision in the pursuit of success, particularly in the business world. He suggests that the greatest entrepreneurs and visionaries are those who dare to dream big and turn those dreams into reality, highlighting the transformative power of imagination and ambition.
In practice
During a motivational speech to young entrepreneurs.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.
Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?
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