Reid Hoffman Quotes

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

Help the people in your network. And let them help you.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

Democracy is always frustrating.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.