Quote

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

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
Persistent
Flexible
Gotta

More quotes by Reid Hoffman

Image
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
Reid Hoffman
Image
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
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
People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
Reid Hoffman
Image
It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
Reid Hoffman
Image
World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
Reid Hoffman
Image
The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people
Reid Hoffman
Image
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
Reid Hoffman
Image
What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
Reid Hoffman