Quotes About Community

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.

Sticking to the people we know is a tempting behavior. But unlike some forms of dating. A networker isn't looking to achieve only a single successful union. Creating an enriching circle of trusted relationships requires one to be out there, in the mix, all the time.

Learning is best achieved through relationships—having the right conversations with the right people in the right context—and collaborative action.

I learned that real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful. It was about working hard to give more than you get.

1) create a company-approved project that will force you to learn new skills and introduce you to new people within your company; (2) take on leadership positions in the hobbies and outside organizations that interest you; (3) join your local alumni club and spend time with people who are doing the jobs you'd like to be doing; (4) enroll in a class at a community college on a subject that relates to either the job you're doing now or a job you see yourself doing in the future.

We are the people we interact with. Our paychecks, our moods, the health of our hearts, and the size of our bellies—all of these things are determined by whom we choose to interact with and how.

3. Don't come to the party empty-handed. Who are the stars of today's digital world? Those writers, bloggers, and gurus who do the best job of providing information, creative content, links, or even just empathy to a community of like-minded individuals. Many of them do it all for free, and their reward is a devout following of people who, in return, offer as much as they receive. It's a loop. In connecting, online and off, you're only as good as what you give away.

LinkedIn will immediately show you who you have in common.

the currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

People used to say there were only six degrees of separation between anyone in the world. A 2011 study of 720 million Facebook users determined the true magic number to be 4.74. LinkedIn's system is built on three degrees of separation. Whichever way you slice it, we're all only a couple of mouse clicks away.

Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —Margaret Wheatley

If 80 percent of success is, as Woody Allen once said, just showing up, then 80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch.

What has become clear is that we're not just connected to others. We are the very product of the people and networks to which we are connected.

Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group, if not three. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success to do things otherwise impossible.

It's better to give before you receive.

The more people you help, the more help you'll have and the more help you'll have helping others.

Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation.

Stop driving yourself—and everyone else—crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful.

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people who could help you make more of yourself.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —MARGARET WHEATLEY

It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.

Who you know determines who you are—how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.