Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
Community
Makes
Broader
Around
Hundreds
Trying
Affect
Good
Immediately
Life
Projects
World
Meaning
People
Millions

More quotes by Reid Hoffman

Image
Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.
Reid Hoffman
Image
One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.
Reid Hoffman
Image
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
Reid Hoffman
Image
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
Image
The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.
Reid Hoffman
Image
One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
Reid Hoffman
Image
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
Reid Hoffman
Image
When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
Reid Hoffman
Image
All human beings are entrepreneurs.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
Reid Hoffman
Image
The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people
Reid Hoffman
Image
I'm sympathetic to the people who go, Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently, but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.
Reid Hoffman
Image
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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