Quotes from Reid Hoffman

MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But the IRS itself has said this isn't necessary. And recently, Trump changed his tune, saying he'll release his returns as soon as Hillary Clinton releases the 33,000 emails she deleted from her email server.

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

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

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.