220 Quotes by Reid Hoffman

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

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.

Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you’re vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.

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.

In this sense, the world of tomorrow will be more like the Silicon Valley of today: constant change and chaos.

In a sentence, as you meet your friends and new people, shift from asking yourself the very natural question of “What’s in it for me?” and ask instead, “What’s in it for us?” All follows from that.

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.

A team in the business world will tend to perform at the level of the worst individual team member.

Often it’s when you come in contact with challenges other people find hard but you find easy that you know you’re in possession of a valuable soft asset.3.