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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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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
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Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks.
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The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic.
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I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.
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Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.
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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.
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It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
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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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When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
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Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.
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People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
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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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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
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If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.
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During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
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