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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

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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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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Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.
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When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
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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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Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
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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.
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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
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