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

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
Life
Navigate
Risk
Actually
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Everything

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You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
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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.
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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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What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.
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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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I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
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Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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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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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
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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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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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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.
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