Top 90 Reid Hoffman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

— Reid Hoffman

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2. “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.”

— Reid Hoffman

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3. “Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”

— Reid Hoffman

4. “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

5. “You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.”

— Reid Hoffman

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6. “Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’re really looking for a person.”

— Reid Hoffman

7. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

— Reid Hoffman

8. “Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.”

— Reid Hoffman

9. “We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.”

— Reid Hoffman

10. “Help the people in your network. And let them help you.”

— Reid Hoffman

11. “Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.”

— Reid Hoffman

12. “We don’t celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning.”

— Reid Hoffman

13. “By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.”

— Reid Hoffman

14. “First mover Advantage doesn’t go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up.”

— Reid Hoffman

15. “Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.”

— Reid Hoffman

16. “Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.”

— Reid Hoffman

17. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

— Reid Hoffman

18. “The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.”

— Reid Hoffman

19. “It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.”

— Reid Hoffman

20. “In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you’re dead. So accuracy really matters.”

— Reid Hoffman

21. “People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don’t.”

— Reid Hoffman

22. “You gotta be both flexible and persistent.”

— Reid Hoffman

23. “You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.”

— Reid Hoffman

24. “One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.”

— Reid Hoffman

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25. “Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.”

— Reid Hoffman

26. “Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.”

— Reid Hoffman

27. “An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.”

— Reid Hoffman

28. “A networker likes to meet people. I don’t. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.”

— Reid Hoffman

29. “Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.”

— Reid Hoffman

30. “Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.”

— Reid Hoffman

31. “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

32. “Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.”

— Reid Hoffman

33. “Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do.”

— Reid Hoffman

34. “The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it’s really all about the people.”

— Reid Hoffman

35. “People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.”

— Reid Hoffman

36. “If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.”

— Reid Hoffman

37. “Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.”

— Reid Hoffman

38. “All human beings are entrepreneurs.”

— Reid Hoffman

39. “Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.”

— Reid Hoffman

40. “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

41. “Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.”

— Reid Hoffman

42. “If you don’t start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.”

— Reid Hoffman

43. “When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.”

— Reid Hoffman

44. “For life in permanent beta, the trick is to never stop starting.”

— Reid Hoffman

45. “The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.”

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46. “I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.”

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47. “You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.”

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48. “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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49. “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

50. “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