Reid Hoffman Quotes

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

I love when I think we're taking territory - if it makes sense in the long term, we just don't give a damn what it looks like in the short term. After all, we're running a cult, not a normal company.

Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. This is high-impact entrepreneurship.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

Zoom does not focus on revenue goals, but rather we have confidence that focusing on the happiness of existing customers and our employees will organically increase growth.

Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

Substantial services growth is core to Boeing's strategy.

Our first 100 rides took us one-and-a-half years from the time we started in January 2011. It was only after that we started scaling up rapidly.

You can't just live cautiously, I think, when you're in a knockout game.

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

I want to do something different in this league, even as a rookie.

Since my professional debut, I've always had a risky game.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

As a former member of JWA's management team, and more recently as a director, I am delighted to have the opportunity now to take the reins of leadership of the company. I look forward to working with JWA's management team to chart the course and execute the plan to further strengthen and broaden JWA's leading product franchises.

There is only one Donald Trump, but people make comparisons because I'm blunt.

I just serve big and play big. That's my game style.

We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Scale will get you strategy.