Best 136 quotes of Reid Hoffman on MyQuotes

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.

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

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.

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

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

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

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

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

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this.

Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.

We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary Clinton] goes, "OK, I realize that's my top agenda item. That's the thing I need to do.

We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on.

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

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.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

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

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

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

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

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

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

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

A few of the managers we spoke with for this book worried that the tour of duty framework might give employees "permission" to leave. But permission is not yours to give or to withhold, and believing you have that power is simply a self-deception that leads to a dishonest relationship with your employees. Employees don't need your permission to switch companies, and if you try to assert that right, they'll simply make their move behind your back.

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

They scribbled observations in notebooks.

With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.