Reid Hoffman Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• Democracy is always frustrating.

  Reid Hoffman

  Democracy, Frustrating

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Achievement, Stories, Impossible

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• So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.

  Reid Hoffman

  Fundamentals, Distribution, Products

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• I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

  Reid Hoffman

  Energy, Groups, Conversation

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• 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

  Issues, People, Social Media

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• When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Fundraising, Next

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• All human beings are entrepreneurs.

  Reid Hoffman

  Entrepreneur, Humans, Human Beings

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.3, Random House

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• The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Challenges, Members

  "Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder". genius.com.

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• Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

  Reid Hoffman

  Moving, Data, Vision

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• 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

  Smart, Thinking, Play

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Lecture by Reid Hoffman, genius.com. November 4, 2014.

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• It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

  Reid Hoffman

  Track, Able, Belief

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• Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

  Reid Hoffman

  Way, Entrepreneurial, Dies

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• If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.

  Reid Hoffman

  Games, Bigs, Ifs

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• Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

  Reid Hoffman

  Location, Valleys, Mindset

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• It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

  Reid Hoffman

  These Days, Conventional

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• One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

  Reid Hoffman

  Running, Visionaries, World

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• The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

  Reid Hoffman

  Crosses

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• There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

  Reid Hoffman

  Vision, Input, Driving

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• 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

  Team, Two, People

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Reid Hoffman's Lecture at Stanford University, startupclass.samaltman.com. November 4, 2014.

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• We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Celebrate, Silicon

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