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I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert. — Reid Hoffman

One lunch is worth dozens of emails. — Reid Hoffman

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be. — Reid Hoffman

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. If you're not growing, you're contracting. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward. — Reid Hoffman

Help the people in your network. And let them help you. — Reid Hoffman

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear. — Reid Hoffman

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

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule. — Reid Hoffman

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other. — Reid Hoffman

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do. — Reid Hoffman

In this sense, the world of tomorrow will be more like the Silicon Valley of today: constant change and chaos. — Reid Hoffman

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered. — Reid Hoffman

In this sense, a business is far more like a sports team than a family. — Reid Hoffman

These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization. — Reid Hoffman

When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music — Reid Hoffman

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days. — Reid Hoffman

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence. — Reid Hoffman

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

Many people think you get career stability by minimizing all risk. But ironically, in a changing world, that's one of the riskiest things you can do. — Reid Hoffman

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user. — Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to. — Reid Hoffman

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

Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours. — Reid Hoffman

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

Relatively few people should start companies. — Reid Hoffman

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to. — Reid Hoffman

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

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential. — Reid Hoffman

All human beings are entrepreneurs. — Reid Hoffman

Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it's now your job to train and invest in yourself. — Reid Hoffman

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges. — Reid Hoffman

It's actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It's hard to be contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn. — Reid Hoffman

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

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. — Reid Hoffman

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. — Reid Hoffman

The future is sooner and stranger than you think. — Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — Reid Hoffman

You gotta be both flexible and persistent. — Reid Hoffman

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it. — Reid Hoffman

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally. — Reid Hoffman

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. — Reid Hoffman

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform. — Reid Hoffman

you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." Reid Hoffman — Dan Norris

They scribbled observations in notebooks. — Reid Hoffman

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. — Reid Hoffman

When you're doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better. — Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees. — Reid Hoffman

If you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late. — Reid Hoffman

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is. — Reid Hoffman

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it. — Reid Hoffman

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

Remember: If you don't find risk, risk will find you. — Reid Hoffman

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

Keeping your options open" is frequently more of a risk than committing to a plan of action. — Reid Hoffman

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace. — Reid Hoffman

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

If you are not receiving or making at least one introduction a month, you are probably not fully engaging your extended professional network. — Reid Hoffman

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. — Reid Hoffman

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you. — Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. — Reid Hoffman

A lot of smart people are prone to over-analysis and tend to become paralyzed by indecision — Reid Hoffman

Until you hear "No," you haven't been turned down. — Reid Hoffman

For many people "twenty years of experience" is really one year of experience repeated twenty times. — Reid Hoffman

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you're both contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman

You need to think and act like you're running a start-up: your career. — Reid Hoffman

In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you're dead. So accuracy really matters. — Reid Hoffman

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning — Reid Hoffman

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. — Reid Hoffman

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

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people — Reid Hoffman

Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted. — Reid Hoffman

Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that's not tied to your employer. — Reid Hoffman

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. — Reid Hoffman

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time. — Reid Hoffman

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman

The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money. — Reid Hoffman

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

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not. — Reid Hoffman

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't. — Reid Hoffman

It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie. — Reid Hoffman

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected. — Reid Hoffman

Easy success had transformed the American auto companies into risk-averse, nonmeritocratic, bloated bureaucracies. — Reid Hoffman

No one cares who you are or are not dating on LinkedIn. — Reid Hoffman

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. — Reid Hoffman

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

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die. — Reid Hoffman

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often. — Reid Hoffman