I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.


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I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.
REID HOFFMAN
Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 1...
REID HOFFMAN
As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a fiv...
REID HOFFMAN
MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, ...
REID HOFFMAN
And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who...
REID HOFFMAN
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they...
REID HOFFMAN
If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn shou...
REID HOFFMAN
My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.
REID HOFFMAN
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
REID HOFFMAN
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and...
REID HOFFMAN
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is s...
REID HOFFMAN
The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the...
REID HOFFMAN
Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to sca...
REID HOFFMAN
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
REID HOFFMAN
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
REID HOFFMAN
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
REID HOFFMAN
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really po...
REID HOFFMAN
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Act...
REID HOFFMAN
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumpi...
PAUL HOFFMAN
Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in...
PAUL HOFFMAN
There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then...
MARY HOFFMAN
The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year.
ANDREW HOFFMAN
(The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN
It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN
As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN
I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN
If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN
That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN
I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN
Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN
People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN
We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN
It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN
Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN