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.
You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.
It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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