Quotes About Networking

The biggest innovation of all is social networking, and cellular technology is the facilitator for social networking. People are mobile; social networking is people, and the only way people connect with each other is wirelessly.

I like connecting with people through technology.

We asked people why they didn't go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they'd say it was a site for teenagers.

We create the technology to connect the world. We are a large network company and not restricted to just the telecom space.

Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

We see opportunities in the networking and telecom space, including 5G, where we see accelerated investments.

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.

In the 1970s, MIT professor Tom Allen showed that the closer people sat to one another, the more frequently they communicated—not just face-to-face communication, but via all media including telephone calls.

For many years, the Rothschilds, the Nobels, and Standard Oil circled around each other, each trying to forge links with a second party to isolate the third.

When introducing someone to another person: If you're not comfortable mentioning someone's job during the introduction, mention their hobby or even a talent.

Right after you've talked to someone at a party, take out your pen. On the back of his or her business card write notes to remind you of the conversation: his favourite restaurant, sport, movie, or drink; whom she admires, where she grew up, a high school honour; or maybe a joke he told. In your next communication, toss off a reference to the favourite restaurant, sport, movie, drink, hometown, high school honour.

When going to a gathering with great networking possibilities, the best way to ensure you are conversationally in the swing of things is to listen to a newscast just before you leave.

You see, nobody gets to the top alone. Over the years, people who seem to have it all have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to the top of whatever corporate or social ladder they chose.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

In businesses, sir, there are no friends, only associates.

Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Rather, your smartness and your effectiveness depend on how well you capitalize on your strongest connections.

You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.