Reid Hoffman Quotes

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

I love what I do. I work a lot, I work all the time, but I love it.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.