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
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.
I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
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