Quote

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

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
Heartened
Reasoning
Team
Talking

More quotes by 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
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
One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.
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 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
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
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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
All human beings are entrepreneurs.
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
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
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
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
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
I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
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
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
Reid Hoffman