Quotes About Networking

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

So it's rare if I go to a city and don't shop. I know different store systems in every city so I just like doing business everywhere I go.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys' table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that's automatic; it's not prejudice.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

When you work for so many years in the industry, you form your cliques. But I quickly realised that I have to be open to work with new talent.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.

I've always surrounded myself with talented people, both in film and in business.

I've gotten to meet so many talented people!

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

Sending e-mails and texts is an automated version of writing letters, whereas social networking is an innovative technology, by which we mean, in this context, that it gives rise to ways of communicating that were not possible in the past.

Facebook page had more friends than Ashton

A related theme is to leverage external resources to the extent that you can, rather than trying to complete an ecosystem all by yourself.

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.