Reid Hoffman Quotes

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

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  Motivational, Change, Business

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

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  Teamwork, Business, Crazy

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.83, Random House

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

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  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Too Late

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Inspiring, Entrepreneur, Way

  "Entrepreneur: someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down" by Richard Branson, www.virgin.com. July 30, 2015.

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

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  Powerful, People, Want

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• Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

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  Opportunity, Schedules, Fit

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

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  Playing It Safe, World, Safe

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Clouds, Sky

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• Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

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  Thinking, Long, Innovation

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

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  People, Entrepreneur, Risk

  "Reid Hoffman Tells Charlie Rose: "Every Individual Is Now An Entrepreneur."". techcrunch.com. March 5, 2009.

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

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  Ideas, Important, Distribution

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

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  Firsts, Advantage, Scales

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

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  Hard Work, Care, Able

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.34, Random House

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• 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.

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  Winning, Committed, Founders

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• 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.

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  People, World, Want

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

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  Thinking, Should Have, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Careers, People, Matter

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• 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.

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  Nice, Impact, World Suffering

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

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  Vision, Persistent, Flexible

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• Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

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  Ideas, Needs, Realizing

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

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  Risk, Navigate

  "Reid Hoffman Tells Charlie Rose: 'Every Individual Is Now An Entrepreneur'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. March 5, 2009.

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• There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

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  Opportunity, Crisis, Great Times

  Source: bigthink.com

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• By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

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  Jobs, Disappear, Billions

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Ideas, People

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• 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 to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.

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  Swings, Competition, Partnership

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