All Reid Hoffman Quotes
- An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. Builds
- 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… Affect
- 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. Actual
- Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do. Changing
- Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important. Distribution
- Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally. Flourishes
- Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. American
- When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better. Able
- You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges. Changes
- 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. Forward
- I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often, Conversation
- Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful. Help
- I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not. Actually Think
- 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. Accomplish
- The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. Airplane
- 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… 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… Brand
- Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential. Good
- Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible. Flexible
- A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user. Alienate
- People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't. Actually Make
- Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle… Ascension
- Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be. Anyone
- First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up Advantage
- Help the people in your network. And let them help you. Help