Reid Hoffman Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
In this sense, the world of tomorrow will be more like the Silicon Valley of today: constant change and chaos.
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.
These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.
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.
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.
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
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.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
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.
You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges.
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
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.
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
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.
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
If you are not receiving or making at least one introduction a month, you are probably not fully engaging your extended professional network.
Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that's not tied to your employer.
For many people "twenty years of experience" is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.
In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you're both contrarian and right.
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.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time.
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
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.
Easy success had transformed the American auto companies into risk-averse, nonmeritocratic, bloated bureaucracies.