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When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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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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A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.
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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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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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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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Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
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You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
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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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