Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
Reid Hoffman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
Places
Citizens
American
Would
Love
World
People
Fortunate
Trade
More quotes by Reid Hoffman
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
World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
Reid Hoffman
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
Reid Hoffman
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
Reid Hoffman
Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.
Reid Hoffman
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
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
Reid Hoffman
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
Reid Hoffman
It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
Reid Hoffman
The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.
Reid Hoffman
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Reid Hoffman
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.
Reid Hoffman
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
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
Reid Hoffman
The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.
Reid Hoffman
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
Reid Hoffman
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
I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
Reid Hoffman
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
Reid Hoffman
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
