Reid Hoffman Quotes

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• An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
• What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So…
• The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
• Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
• Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
• Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
• Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
• When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
• You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
• 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.
• I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often,
• Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
• I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
• A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.
• The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
• One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it's much better…
• People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you…
• Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
• Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.
• A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

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