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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.
Reid Hoffman
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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
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Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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One of the things is when you think, Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.
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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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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.
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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
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The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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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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It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
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All human beings are entrepreneurs.
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