Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.

People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

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

If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.