“Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wish to be focused on kind of the business stuff I'm doing, how do I contribute to our economic progress, how… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What Do the Results of a Successful Tour of Duty Look Like for the Company? A successful mission objective delivers results for… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“A team in the business world will tend to perform at the level of the worst individual team member” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 are most… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Stockpiling facts won’t get you anywhere. What will get you somewhere is being able to access the information you need, when you need it.” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image