Reid Hoffman Quotes - Page 5

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• The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic.

  Reid Hoffman

  Strong, Keys, Order

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Second Amendment, Individual, Jokes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Reid Hoffman

  War, Democracy, Portfolios

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.

  Reid Hoffman

  Strong, Communication, Destiny

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, Long, Sailing

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Reid Hoffman

  Wise, Country, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Class, Plight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, Land, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Office, Waiting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

  Reid Hoffman

  Good Luck, Extra Time, Entrepreneur

  Source: bigthink.com

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• [Hillary Clinton] is also smart, she talks to people, she hears, and she says, "OK, I need to update, we need some much bigger changes."

  Reid Hoffman

  Smart, People, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, "OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?"

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Democracy is always frustrating.

  Reid Hoffman

  Democracy, Frustrating

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

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• 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

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

  Reid Hoffman

  School, Thinking, Lord

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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