Quotes About Networking

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.

When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.

Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best poker minds in the world to help me study and figure things out.

Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'

I never go to these showbiz parties. I avoid them with a 10-inch pole.

'Beyond The Pole's Facebook page has been incredibly instrumental in introducing us to new people and to making connections with journalists, cinemas everything.

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

If I go to posh parties, I hover by the kitchen so I can get as many nice canapes as possible.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

Anybody who's in a position Maiden is, or whatever, or any band that can potentially take another band on tour, I think you can help other people, and it doesn't take much effort to do that.

I think that's the most interesting part about social media these days. You have such direct contact with anybody and everybody.

Often, I'll ask clients who've found a great contracting relationship how they did so. The answer is almost always that they heard about them through a friend or colleague.

There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

It's hard to enlist the support of people you don't know, but it's critical to growing your career, finding new customers, and building out your team.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

I connect with people on a daily basis.