Reid Hoffman Quotes

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.