Reid Hoffman famous quotes

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

#Business #People #Want

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

#Business #Firsts #Too Late

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

#Business #Team #Games

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

#Business #Airplane #Cliffs

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Simple #Swings #Needs

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

#Being The Best #Connected

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

#Entrepreneur

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

#Greed #Ego #Sloth

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

#Airplane #Journey #Jumping

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

#Thinking #Entrepreneur #Individual

People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Careers #People #Matter

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

#World #Safe

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

#Business #Dna #Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Inspiring #Entrepreneur #Way

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Strong #Smart #Team

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

#Risk

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Jobs #Disappear #Billions

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Opportunity #Careers #Progress

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.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Jobs #People #Get Better

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Thinking #People

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Ideas #Needs #Realizing

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Vision #Persistent

If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Games #Bigs

One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Swings #Competition #Partnership

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.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Running #Way #World

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

#Investing #Reinventing Yourself

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Dream #Business #Entrepreneur

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
-- Reid Hoffman

#People #Community #Trying

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.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Issues #People #Social Media

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

#Ideas #Important #Distribution

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

#Ideas #Entrepreneurship

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Hard Work #Care #Able

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.
-- Reid Hoffman

#People #World #Want

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

#Powerful #People #Want

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Identity #World #Remakes

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often,
-- Reid Hoffman

#Energy #Groups #Conversation

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

#Firsts #Advantage #Scales

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Thinking #Needs #Innovative

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Helping #Creation #Employers

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Location #Valleys #Mindset

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

#People #Entrepreneur #Risk

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Thinking #Stranger

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Thinking #Long #Innovation

What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team, rather than a solo founder.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Team #Two #People

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

#People #Helping

It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.
-- Reid Hoffman

#Easy