Reid Hoffman

Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.

— Reid Hoffman

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

— Reid Hoffman

“One lunch is worth dozens of emails.”

— Reid Hoffman

Relatively few people should start companies.

— Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

— Reid Hoffman

Democracy is always frustrating.

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“When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music”

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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

— Reid Hoffman

Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.

— Reid Hoffman

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your…

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The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of…

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One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the…

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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture…

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Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the…

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Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a…

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We understand that most of the middle class doesn't know what to do, doesn't feel like they have economic progress, and [Hillary…

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Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may…

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The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen,…

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One of the really key things to look at in terms of crafting strategy when you're in an economic crises is how…

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Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if…

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In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control…

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As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect…

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As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a five-person start-up or a global giant, the companies that…

— Reid Hoffman

I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's…

— Reid Hoffman

“Unlike John Lasseter’s bosses at Disney, Bezos was open to the entrepreneurial contributions of Amazon’s individual employees—even when those ideas were outside…

— Reid Hoffman

Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating…

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“What Do the Results of a Successful Tour of Duty Look Like for the Company? A successful mission objective delivers results for…

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“While you don’t want to make career moves on 0 percent information, you also don’t want to wait till you have 100…

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Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think,…

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If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One…

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I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see…

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People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional…

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