Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if the future is going to be very big, you need to hire people, or suddenly you go to boom to bust, then all of a sudden, you're kind of battening down the hatches and trying to sail, you know, through the storm, it's a different thing. So part of it is making good decisions about, well, how long is a boom cycle going to be, you know, don't plan on it going forever.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. - Reid Hoffman
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
- Reid Hoffman
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't. - Reid Hoffman
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a pers… - Reid Hoffman
Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a pers…
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful. - Reid Hoffman
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better. - Reid Hoffman
When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up - Reid Hoffman
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. - Reid Hoffman
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.
What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down. - Reid Hoffman
What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future. - Reid Hoffman
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
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