Reid Hoffman Quotes

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people - figure out why they don't want to change. It could be habits. It could be people's personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they're in or the process they've mastered.

I don't like change that much.

I think people don't really like change.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

. . . escape is easier than change.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.