Reid Hoffman Quotes

United States, Businessman
August 5, 1967

Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. On the Forbes 2019 list of the world's billionaires, Hoffman was ranked #1349 with a net worth of US$1.8 billion.

Also known as Author, Entrepreneur

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

Reid Hoffman
- Life
- Risk
- Navigate
The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.

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

Reid Hoffman
- Life
- Starting
- Beta
If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.

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- Product
- Version
- Shipped
Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that’s not tied to your employer.

Reid Hoffman
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Reid Hoffman
Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. If you’re not growing, you’re contracting. If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.

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- Moving
- Busy
- Forward
You need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career.

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- Think
- Career
- Act

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

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Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

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For many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.

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- People
- Experience
Remember: If you don’t find risk, risk will find you.

Reid Hoffman
- Risk
- Find