Quotes About Networking

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

The fundraisers I go to are all open bar. I don't think I'd go to one that wasn't.

I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People—powerful people—listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders. I

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

My advice for folks on networking is give, give, give. You will later receive. But you are really planting these seeds. Some of them will die, and they won't become anything. Many of them will take many, many years before they pay off for you if at all.

I did a song with Rihanna recently, and I was like, 'How did you find out about me or whatever?' And she said, 'Drake.'

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.' Because we didn't have computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

A lot about this industry is about who you know. If you set a really good example for yourself, and someone likes that, then they might recommend you to someone else. It doesn't matter what job you're in, any profession, it's always the same.

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

A lot of kids, especially football players, had been using Twitter for recruiting.

I'm trying to get an internship at the ESPYS. I'd like to do interviews on the red carpet.

When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.

I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

It wasn't until the second half of my first year that I realized you have to try to make friends and meet people at Harvard; the chances don't come to you.

Just by chance, I happened to meet someone who told me there was a high level quizzing circuit.

I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.

You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.