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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.

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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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The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
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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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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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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
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The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
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Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
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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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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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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.
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It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.
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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.
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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.
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I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.
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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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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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