Latest Reid Hoffman Quotes from Interviews

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• Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.

  Reid Hoffman

  Believe, Kids, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically. And the only thing I disagree with is, I don't think Donald Trump is that. Trump is blow it up for no good reason at all. You want to actually do revolution with a target, with an idea, with building a new system.

  Reid Hoffman

  Blow, Thinking, Revolution

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Technology, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Progress, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Chaos

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Thinking, Imagine, Policy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• That's part of the reason why we also need to focus on, how do I give to society, how do I participate in society, how do I make society a better place, because, by the way, it's good for me, but it's also good for all of us in the environment in which we live and work.

  Reid Hoffman

  Giving, Focus, Environment

  Source: www.pbs.org

• One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, People, Empowerment

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."

  Reid Hoffman

  School, Thinking, Lord

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I wish to be focused on kind of the business stuff I'm doing, how do I contribute to our economic progress, how do I help create a future for American industry, American middle class, these kind of things. Those things actually really matter to me.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wish, Progress, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  People, Bully, Worried

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

  Reid Hoffman

  Second Amendment, Individual, Jokes

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  War, Democracy, Portfolios

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wise, Country, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wise, Government, Problem

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Democracy is always frustrating.

  Reid Hoffman

  Democracy, Frustrating

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

  Reid Hoffman

  Democracy, Process, Committees

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

  Reid Hoffman

  Believe, Groups, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think I knew how frightened people were [when Donald Trump was elected], and I think I knew that people were worried about their future. I don't think I realized that they would be willing to risk kind of a 1920s Germany in order to blow it all up, not realizing that we've accomplished a lot as Americans, and we want to keep the good things and revolutionize the new things.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Blow, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Frustration, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  People, Citizens, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on.

  Reid Hoffman

  Jobs, Technology, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

• People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional networks, I kind of look at time spending and time efficiency. You know, time saving sites. So on time spending sites, things where you play lots of games or that sort of thing, you might worry about a productivity loss if people are spending a lot of time doing that. So if there's a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won't be as helpful to you.

  Reid Hoffman

  Loss, Games, Play

  Source: bigthink.com