Reid Hoffman Quotes

I talk a lot with my team-mates.

Come now. let us reason together.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

No team works out teamwork.

When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.

I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.

I want to encourage open conversation, which allows people to discuss issues and learn from each other.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

Thatcher was wrong. People don't exist - well, they don't flourish - as individuals. Life's about swapping ideas and communicating with other people.

I tend to solicit opinions from all those around me. I like to hear opinions and the rationale behind it from everybody in the room. Perhaps it's the result of going to law school and using the Socratic method.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.