Reid Hoffman Quotes

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

Education is such an important tool for success, and probably the most important one.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

I was very proud to hear that my friend Andre Johnson was like, 'Man, I'm going back to school.' I was so excited because, yeah you have great talent. You do everything on Sundays, you do everything on the field, but you went to college, and I'm not saying that you forgot about it, but that was on your mind when you first went.

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

I went so far with school, so I might as well just finish. Getting my degree is something I'll be really happy about.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.