220 Quotes by Reid Hoffman

It’s better to be the best connected than the most connected.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that’s almost always a mistake.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.

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.

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.

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’re really looking for a person.

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

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