Reid Hoffman Quotes

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.

I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

The internet has given pure equality to everyone. The cream rises to the top. It is the era of not take a job, but create your own job.

Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great nation and in creating more jobs. It's this frontier that is endless in terms of opportunity and potential.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

The Obama Administration cares deeply about innovation and about helping to make sure that geeks across the country, those coming up with new discoveries and exciting inventions - and creating jobs along the way - have the freedom and security to keep innovating.