Reid Hoffman Quotes

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

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

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

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

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

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

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.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

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 manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if the future is going to be very big, you need to hire people, or suddenly you go to boom to bust, then all of a sudden, you're kind of battening down the hatches and trying to sail, you know, through the storm, it's a different thing. So part of it is making good decisions about, well, how long is a boom cycle going to be, you know, don't plan on it going forever.