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
The sky is falling, the wind is calling_x000D_ _x000D_ Stand for something, or die in the morning
It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball
My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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