Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Jeff Weiner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Jeff Weiner.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Jeff Weiner

Jeffrey Weiner is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of LinkedIn, a business-related social networking website. He started with LinkedIn on December 15, 2008, as Interim President. Weiner played an instrumental role in LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft for $26 billion in June 2016. Currently, He is the Executive chairman of Linkedin as in 2022. He is also the founding Partner of Next play venture capital.

LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.
Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.
Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.
Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.
You don't necessarily have to go public to get to the next level. — © Jeff Weiner
You don't necessarily have to go public to get to the next level.
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.
You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.
In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.
The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.
Data really powers everything that we do.
Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.
It starts with vision, and the clarity of vision
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