Reid Hoffman Quotes

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

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.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal.

I realized that I'm increasingly in a position where I know a network of people, and I'm able to connect more or less anyone.

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

I keep in touch with a lot of people I work with.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

You have to realise that everyone that you are working with is important. It doesn't matter where you are starting from; you are always going to run back into those people, and they are going to talk, and that's going to be the base of whether you get good opportunities or not.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

I have faced challenges during the initial stages of my career, and I see Run Adam as filling a vacuum.

The great thing about being in this business is that you meet people, and I met Sally Struthers.

My career has always thrived on hard work and good relationships with people I work with and just continuing grinding.

One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there - this was over 10 years ago, so it's no one who I work with now or have worked with recently - but he told me that I was too ambitious.