Reid Hoffman Quotes

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world.

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.

It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.