Reid Hoffman Quotes

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to be as people absorb and digest my ideas. I am especially proud of The Change Master: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, first published in 1983, because it raised questions and addressed issues at a time when so many great changes were occurring in our society, indeed throughout the world.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

Anything that is history making, then of course you want to be a part of it.

Make history or be a part of it.

I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people. That's what I want to be remembered by. I want to inspire.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.