220 Quotes by Reid Hoffman

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

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.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

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