Quotes from Reid Hoffman

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

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

LinkedIn allows professionals, including the middle class, to invest in themselves in order to find the right jobs. That essentially can help make them prosperous.

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.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

In democracies, we aren't always governed by the people or the parties that we voted for. But when officials are elected, we must respect their authority, as long as they're exercising that authority within the bounds of whatever regulatory frameworks are in place to guide them.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Relatively few people should start companies.

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

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

The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.