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Reid Hoffman Quotes

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

– Reid Hoffman

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

– Reid Hoffman

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don’t.

– 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

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

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

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

– Reid Hoffman

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

– 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

I’m a little unusual: I’m a six-person-or-less extrovert.

– Reid Hoffman

Relatively few people should start companies.

– Reid Hoffman

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

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

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

– Reid Hoffman

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

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that’s right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that’s better than television in terms of social connectivity.

– Reid Hoffman

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

– Reid Hoffman

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

– Reid Hoffman

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

– Reid Hoffman

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively – I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook – it sounds trivial, but people matter.

– Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

– Reid Hoffman