220 Quotes by Reid Hoffman

What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if - it's a question of when.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, 'No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics.'

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people.