Quotes About Networking

I just think that models and rock stars, and actors and actresses, all tend to flock to one another.

Social media is like a big trade-show. You get to network... you get to make friends and followers. But email is where those friends and followers become customers.

Ever since I've been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up.

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

I'm going to continue to see my friends who coach in the NBA and see my former players who play in the NBA. I'm going to continue to go to games.

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.

Coaching is really a big fraternity. You can get in if you know the right people.

If you didn't know Fred Claire, you didn't know anyone.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.

Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don't know what to do and you like fashion, I think it's a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that's how I met people in magazines and designers.

I'm really lucky to have a lot of friends in fashion. I don't know if that's common, but I just get along with a lot of people. My really close friends are Ireland Baldwin, Kendall Jenner, Lily Aldridge and Devon Windsor.

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

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.

No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone