Reid Hoffman Quotes

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

The best businesses are the ones that are the most paranoid.

No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability to feel the change faster and take decisive action faster.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.

At least before my hip replacement, I had a quick first step. I could get by you off the dribble. My business game is the same way. I can turn an idea into a business before you know it's going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

Don't let the ball hit you. Catch it or get out of the way. And if you get out of the way, that's when you have to stop playing.

You have to think and act quickly. You have to quickly come up with a solution to beat a player, because most of the time, you are in a one-v-one.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan.

I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.