Quotes from Reid Hoffman

Our elected officials must understand that we, the American people, expect them to perform the duties of their office, even when that means working with other elected officials from different parties.

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

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

For Trump, the reasons to release his tax returns have always been compelling. Doing so would show the American people he doesn't just talk about accountability and transparency but also walks the walk.

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

Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

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

The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business - is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

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.

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.'