Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs. — 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
What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two… — 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
One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new. — 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
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
When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the past, individuals and companies envisioned a lifetime mutual commitment. That's not realistic anymore - nor is it in the interest… — 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
One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the really key things to look at in terms of crafting strategy when you're in an economic crises is how… — 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
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
What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.” — 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
A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.' — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time? — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered. — 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
