Take intelligent and bold risks to accomplish something great. Build a network of alliances to help you with intelligence, resources, and collective … - Reid Hoffman

As we’ve already seen, most great ideas look dumb at first. Being contrarian doesn’t mean that dumb people disagree with you; it means that smart people disagree with you!

Part of the journey that we entrepreneurs are on is learning how to separate our winning instincts from our losing ideas. I think, as a rule of thumb, if you’re a good entrepreneur you can assume that your instincts are right 95 percent of the time and your ideas might be right 25 percent of the time.

Relationship builders, on the other hand, try to help other people first. They don’t keep score. They’re aware that many good deeds get reciprocated, but they’re not calculated about it. And they think about their relationships all the time, not just when they need something.