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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. — 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
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
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 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
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
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — 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
“These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.” — 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
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
“As much as companies might yearn for a stable environment and employees might yearn for lifetime employment, the world has irrevocably changed.… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“more on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you… — 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
