Business Quotes by Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

“Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.”

— Reid Hoffman

Business is the systematic playing of games.

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

— Reid Hoffman

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

— Reid Hoffman

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

“These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.”

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

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

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“more on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where…

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I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I…

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During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can…

— Reid Hoffman

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have…

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We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their…

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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

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

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for…

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The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a…

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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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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

“As much as companies might yearn for a stable environment and employees might yearn for lifetime employment, the world has irrevocably changed.…

— Reid Hoffman

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

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

— Reid Hoffman

There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of…

— Reid Hoffman

The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you…

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Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things…

— 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

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

“A team in the business world will tend to perform at the level of the worst individual team member”

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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…

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

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

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Reid Hoffman