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.
Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.
Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.
The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.
I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.
Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.
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