Reid Hoffman Quotes

In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.

… temperament is your basic orientation toward life. The Elizabethans boiled it down to four types: You were choleric or sanguine or melancholy or aggressive. You can be a good leader from any of them. Lincoln was melancholy, but what a president! It’s more to do with how you grow, how you learn from your mistakes.

My resume is lean enough that I don't have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.

As a general rule, when your child, or anyone in the work force, doesn't know what he/she wants to do, they should instead always be developing skills and competencies that will qualify them for the jobs that companies are most looking to fill and increase their hireability.

The career I have had should warrant me getting a job. I've done all the badges. I'm doing my coaching badges with the Welsh FA.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency.

I never asked the political affiliation of anyone I hired. I looked for brains, judgment, talent, commitment to our domestic agenda, and a willingness to work around the clock.

A man has to learn to be a Representative just as he must learn to be a blacksmith, a carpenter, a farmer, an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor.

Any man who doesn’t like dogs … shouldn’t be in the White House.

I’ve watched Dick a long time, and he just hasn’t grown. So I haven’t been able to believe he is presidential timber.

You must have a rationale for your candidacy.

The presidency is an office for which none of us is great enough.

So you want this fucking job.

[Referring to Ronald Reagan:] When you meet the President, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less President?

The issue is not the length of your resume but the strength of your vision.

[The Electoral College] affords a moral certainty that the office of the Presidency will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

A man who can’t smell the mood of the Senate has no business being leader.