Reid Hoffman

"You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future."

"Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel."

"One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you."

"Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it."

"With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters."

"An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down."