220 Quotes by Reid Hoffman

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Many employer-employee relationships are built on a lie that starts from the first interaction: neither party automatically conceives of the relationship as something that will last a lifetime, but both interact as if it is. This lie of omission bases the relationship on distrust.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

I usually allocate time each week to work on topics outside of the normal workflow. These topics can be multi-year strategies for work, theories of how the world is changing, or just something refreshingly different or new.

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.

If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.

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