When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
Interpretation
Caring about your work leads to greater effort and quality.
This quote by Reid Hoffman emphasizes the importance of passion and commitment in one's work. When individuals engage in tasks that resonate with their interests and values, they tend to invest more time and energy into those activities, resulting in improved performance and satisfaction.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about choosing careers.
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
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