Reid Hoffman Quotes

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

My LinkedIn page looks crazy.

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

A large part of the reason I want to be so mysterious is so that I can move on and do something serious at some point in my career X years from now. It might be very difficult otherwise, because I'm... wild

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

If you are going to do things in your life and be responsible for your career, then be responsible for your career. You are responsible for your success.

I have always tried to market myself.

Right now, at the age of 22, I'm making a living off of this and I'm building, not only just my brand, but I'm also building myself bell-to-bell. I'm building myself when that red light's on and I want to keep doing it.

I started my blog when I was a senior in college, and I knew that all the people in my program were probably going to be applying for very similar jobs, so I needed something to separate my resume.

I've been very lucky that I've interviewed so many different people.

I wanted to understand the business side of entertainment, and that's why I decided to complete my MBA while I was in Delhi.

As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens].

I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison.

I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that's commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin' me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin' a deal.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

You have to think like a businessman or a businesswoman, and I can't wait to continue to grow, as an actress, but to also continue to grow as a brand and show people that I have so much more to offer.

I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.