Reid Hoffman Quotes

I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

Have the right people in the right places, working together

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work, that's why there are two types of people today. Those who build their own dreams and those who build someone else dreams.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

I would surround myself with people who know what they're doing.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

We're being very good team players here and very happy we've got a great working relationship with Reince Priebus and the RNC. They've been spectacular to us.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] were constantly looking for features and looking for ways to get involved with people who were making stuff.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

The energy in working with my team at Adidas is really good for me. Being this is the third installment, I feel like everybody is comfortable with everybody.