Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
Reid Hoffman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
Bigs
Never
Aiming
Game
Almost
Games
Start
More quotes by Reid Hoffman
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
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
Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
Reid Hoffman
I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?
Reid Hoffman
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
Reid Hoffman
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
Reid Hoffman
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.
Reid Hoffman
Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
Reid Hoffman
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
One of the things is when you think, Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.
Reid Hoffman
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
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
Reid Hoffman
I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it, and now it's Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster.
Reid Hoffman
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.
Reid Hoffman
Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
Reid Hoffman
Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
Reid Hoffman
Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
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
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
Reid Hoffman
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
Reid Hoffman
