Quotes from Reid Hoffman

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

LinkedIn allows professionals, including the middle class, to invest in themselves in order to find the right jobs. That essentially can help make them prosperous.

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

In democracies, we aren't always governed by the people or the parties that we voted for. But when officials are elected, we must respect their authority, as long as they're exercising that authority within the bounds of whatever regulatory frameworks are in place to guide them.

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.

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

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.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.

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.