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.

  Reid Hoffman

  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.

  Reid Hoffman

  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.

  Reid Hoffman

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Long, Innovation

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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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• 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.

  Reid Hoffman

  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.

  Reid Hoffman

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Reid Hoffman

  Careers, People, Matter

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Vision, Persistent, Flexible

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• 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.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mean, Cutting, Successful

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

  Reid Hoffman

  Ideas, Needs, Realizing

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

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  Culture, Attention, Pay

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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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• You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

  Reid Hoffman

  Investing, Reinventing Yourself, Investing In The Future

  "Networking Tips From The Ultimate Networker". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 14, 2012.

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• Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future.

  Reid Hoffman

  Tough Times, Investing, Economic

  Source: bigthink.com

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