Quotes About Networking

It's one of the best parts of being on the 'Real Housewives' and why I love it: getting to talk to so many great people.

I have never ever hung out with actors and comedians. I can't stand it.

Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.

Social media is a great way to get discovered in the industry because it's free, it's worldwide, and everyone's on it - a very powerful combination.

Our customers are worldwide themselves - the Middle East, the Far East, Europe.

You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.

I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole.

The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.

Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

I have a ton of great girlfriends in this business.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

We have found that using Facebook as a work tool makes our work day more efficient.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

Backplane will provide a platform and tools for communities to socialize and communicate on a more focused level.

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

He made it to the front door before he looked back at her. Then his eyes grew wide. "Oh! I almost forgot." He came back over to her and handed her a card. "These are my numbers, e-mail addresses, business URL, physical address, and mailing address. You know…if you need to get in touch with me." Get in touch with him? But he left out his social security number, his date of birth, and his high school GPA.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.