42 Reid Hoffman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Reid Hoffman

American Businessman

Born: Aug 5, 1967

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One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you. Reid Hoffman

Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word 'grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity. Reid Hoffman

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Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed. Reid Hoffman

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

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Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. Reid Hoffman

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Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage. Reid Hoffman

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

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For Trump, the reasons to release his tax returns have always been compelling. Doing so would show the American people he doesn't just talk about accountability and transparency but also walks the walk. Reid Hoffman

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The opportunity to build an enduring product far outweighs the cost of alienating a few users along the way. And the sooner you internalize that trade-off, the faster you'll move along the path to scale. Reid Hoffman

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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be. Reid Hoffman

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

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If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective. Reid Hoffman

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

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Relatively few people should start companies. Reid Hoffman

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MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems. Reid Hoffman

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As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives. Reid Hoffman

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Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. This is high-impact entrepreneurship. Reid Hoffman

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for. Reid Hoffman

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The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are. Reid Hoffman

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People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special. Reid Hoffman

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The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the world to change their own economic curve by the strength of their alliances and connections with other people. Reid Hoffman

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. Reid Hoffman

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