Quote

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

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
Track
Belief
Whether
Tracking
Also
Paranoia
Able
Thesis
Useful
Investment
Recognize

More quotes by Reid Hoffman

Image
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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
Image
Democracy is always frustrating.
Reid Hoffman
Image
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
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
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
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
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
Reid Hoffman
Image
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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
Image
If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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
Image
It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
Reid Hoffman
Image
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Reid Hoffman
Image
If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
Reid Hoffman
Image
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
Reid Hoffman