All Reid Hoffman Quotes
- What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two or three people… Best
- It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right. Actually Pretty
- Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. Execution
- The future is sooner and stranger than you think. Future
- It's better to be the best connected than the most connected. Best
- Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. Inspirational
- Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace. Both
- If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there. Aiming
- Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. Best
- One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships… Business
- You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. Constantly
- If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. Business
- All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA. All
- Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do. Articulate
- No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. Always Lose
- The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be. Business
- You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. Airplane
- The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded… Called
- My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn. Belief
- If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information,… Active
- Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it. Actually Learn
- Relatively few people should start companies. Companies
- Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities. Activities
- MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook… Back Yard